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Melikhovo Spring theatre festival opens at the Chekhov museum-reserve in Melikhovo

🎭"Uncle Vanya", Elizaveta Boyarskaya and tenderness: how the 26th International Theatre Festival "Melikhovo Spring" opened. Yesterday the Anton Chekhov Museum-Reserve hosted the opening of the "Melikhovo Spring" theatre festival. It will run for 10 days, with companies from 6 countries presenting more than

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Anti-British propaganda in Japan in 1941 plays on Churchill's initials W.C., the international sign for a lavatory, water closet

Anti-British propaganda in Japan in 1941 plays on Churchill's initials W.C., the international sign for a lavatory, water closet. The gesture, frequently found in manga, anime and comedy scenes as an exaggerated reaction to something foul-smelling, may in the broader context of visual culture be

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Vladimir Stasov's September 1906 Soirée at His Home with Shalyapin

At the centre of the photograph, in Russian costume, sits the 82-year-old Vladimir Stasov, host of the evening. Behind him, to his right, is Fyodor Chaliapin; at the piano, Felix Blumenfeld; on other evenings, Cesar Cui and Rachmaninoff would occupy that place. The eye is caught by Stasov&

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The Russian Imperial Family during a Visit to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra in 1911

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Homo sapiens tools 150,000 years old found in Côte d'Ivoire rainforest

Here is another recent study claiming to change our ideas about the origin of humankind. An international team led by Eslem Ben Arous and Eleanor Scerri describes stone tools of Homo sapiens, 150,000 years old, found at the Bété I site in Côte d'Ivoire. The layer has

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My expertise has been officially attested 🥹 For the third year running, we are finding the leading lights of cultural production for the RBC Visionaries project

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The 17th-century "Whalers' Cemetery" on Spitsbergen, by the Likneset station, has begun to thaw after 400 years

The 17th-century "Whalers' Cemetery" on Spitsbergen, by the Likneset station, has begun to thaw after 400 years. And now Norwegian archaeologists are examining knitted woollen stockings, finely woven woollen trousers, blue silk neckerchiefs, fragments of blue-striped linen shirts, caps and blankets found in remarkably well-

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The Moscow Soviet and the April 1917 rally on Skobelev Square over the loan

In April 1917, on the eve of the April Crisis, which through Milyukov's note would bring down the first Provisional Government, the chief political topic in Moscow was the "Liberty Loan", that is, the Provisional Government's war loan to continue the war. On 15

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Rally on Skobelev Square in Moscow in April 1917, today's Tverskaya Square

A rally on Skobelev Square in Moscow, April 1917. Today the square can be recognised by the church of Saints Cosmas and Damian peeping out from behind the building. Yes, yes, this is how Tverskaya Square looked a hundred years ago. On the very spot where the monument to the

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Leo Tolstoy, a Land Surveyor and the Peasant Prokofy Vlasov at Yasnaya Polyana in 1890

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Snake-legged giants on a 2nd century BC relief from Aphrodisias in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum

The Greeks called the battle of the Olympian gods against the giants a Gigantomachy: creatures born of the earth who rose against the new divine order. The photograph shows a fragment of a relief of the 2nd century BC from Aphrodisias. It is now kept in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum.

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