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Alexandr Radayev
Art · Observations · Ethnography
Henri-Paul Motte depicts the druid rite of cutting mistletoe with a golden blade
The aesthetics of druid life always remind me of pictures of Ancient Rus'. Druids Cutting the Mistletoe on the Sixth Day of the Moon. Henri-Paul Motte (1846-1922) It is believed that sprigs of mistletoe were cut with a golden blade, after which cattle were offered in sacrifice
NB! · Observations
Good Night
Art · London · Observations · Society · Humour
Britain Impoverished by the Liberals Begs on the Thames Embankment with Her Battered Lion, the Palace of Westminster in Ruins Behind Her
Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1891. On the whole, 130 years on, the subject is topical once more. Only now the old lady Britannia must also sit there with a black eye, courtesy of her cultural enrichers.
NB! · Monarchies · Pop Culture
Napoleon's felt hat, allegedly worn by him in 1815, sold for €1,932,000
Napoleon's felt hat, allegedly worn by him in 1815, sold for €1,932,000. It is the highest price ever fetched at auction by any of Napoleon's hats
NB! · The East · Cinema · Monarchies · Humour
Although it is a fallacy, Ridley Scott decided to use the myth of Napoleon firing cannon at the Sphinx in order to show more concisely in the film that Egypt had been taken
NB! · Science
From Newton to Einstein: Just One Step
Art · Society · Saint Petersburg
Plate with portraits of the Decembrists made by the Leningrad Porcelain Factory in 1925
But you did not perish in vain: what you have sown will sprout. The Decembrists. Leningrad Porcelain Factory, 1925, and we are still waiting for the shoots
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Detail of a Last Judgment icon: angels at the Hetoimasia, scales and the serpent
NB! · Faith · Art · Museums
Souls of the Righteous in the Hand of God on a 16th-Century “Last Judgement” Icon from Solvychegodsk
The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God. Icon of the Last Judgement, 16th century, from the Annunciation Cathedral in the town of Solvychegodsk.
Archive · Books · Monarchies · Observations · Society
Catherine II’s “Nakaz” as a portrait of the empress and its article on customs duties
I continue reading the draft of Catherine's Code, her "Instruction" of 22 chapters and 655 articles, that is, the direct guide for the deputies in drawing up the principal body of laws of the Russian Empire, a new Code to replace the "Sobornoye Ulozhenie"
Observations · Society
An international set of 26 words for spelling out names and addresses
A is for Alfa, I is for India, P is for Papa, T is for Tango, V is for Victor. For those occasions when one must set down someone's name, or convey by letters the code of a number plate, an address, or some other word or abbreviation,