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"He was clothed in a robe dipped in blood. His name is called "The Word of God". And the armies of heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, with which to strike the
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The Heavenly Host. Viktor Vasnetsov
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Saint Anthony hurries away from an imposing mountain of gold that has appeared to him from a cave, resisting the temptation of riches. Few manage to overcome this trial
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I read how His Imperial Highness Pavel Petrovich, the future Emperor Paul I, celebrated his tenth birthday. The first to congratulate the Tsesarevich that morning was his confessor, the hieromonk Platon Levshin, after which the heir was led to the apartments of Her Majesty, and together with the Empress he
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A History of Peter III: three volumes. The Life of Catherine II: two volumes. There is in this a certain inexpressible historical irony.
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Konstantin Lipskerov, 1916. Poems written under the impression of a journey to Turkestan
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A very charming "treasure map" of the Nizhny Novgorod Region has appeared on the Sobaka.ru website. The map shows, in interactive form, the main centres of the region's folk crafts and decorative and applied arts, and is at the same time a chronicle of Russian
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The French dramatist Prosper de Crébillon (1674-1762), named among Voltaire's chief rivals, took very hard the failure of his play "The Triumvirate", about Roman history and the events preceding the murder of Cicero, and the open rejection of it by the public. Crébillon was so
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"Gods! What horror! My father's head!" cries Tullia, beholding the remains of the executed Cicero. Mark Antony, who together with Lepidus and Octavian Augustus had established in Rome the regime of the Second Triumvirate, declared Cicero, the most influential of the senators, an enemy of the
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"The Madwoman of Étretat" by the French painter Hugues Merle, 1871, and the Log Lady from Twin Peaks by David Lynch, 1990. The two women are united by a tragic fate: both lost someone they loved. The madwoman of Étretat was a real woman whom Merle met in