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Alexandr Radayev
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Stichting Ambulance Wens Nederland fulfils the last wishes of dying people
A dying woman asked to see a Rembrandt before the end. This happened in Amsterdam in 2015, and it was not an isolated case: several other gravely ill patients in the city's hospitals asked to be shown "The Night Watch" and the Rembrandt exhibition. The chance
Art · Museums · Paris
Rembrandt's Painting of 1632 from the Louvre Collection
Philosopher in Meditation. Rembrandt, 1632. Louvre collection
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Landscapes by Nikolai Vladimirovich Stahl von Holstein, French abstract painter of Russian origin, son of a general of the Russian army
Landscapes by Nikolai Vladimirovich Stahl von Holstein, French abstract painter of Russian origin, son of a general of the Russian army. He is better known as Nicolas de Staël. Collection of the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
Archive · Society
Compiègne Armistice between the Entente and Germany signed in Picardy on 11 November 1918
On 11 November 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the Armistice of Compiègne was concluded between the Entente powers and Germany, ending hostilities in the First World War. The document, signed in the French region of Picardy, effectively put an end to the
Art · Books
Ruslan's Battle with the Head
Ruslan's Battle with the Head. Nikolai Ge, Ivan Kramskoy. Pensive rides our Ruslan And sees: through the night mist Far off a huge hill looms black, And something dreadful snores. He draws nearer to the hill, nearer, and hears: The marvellous hill seems to breathe. Ruslan listens and
Architecture · Faith · Moscow
The Lobnoye Mesto on Red Square Is the Same as Golgotha
The Lobnoye Mesto on Red Square is the same as Golgotha. That is precisely the meaning originally invested in the structure. It was supposed that Moscow would have its own Jerusalem temple on the main square, that is, the Intercession Cathedral, and its own Golgotha, that is, the Lobnoye Mesto.
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The Furnishing of the Office of Jack Lang, French Minister of Culture in the 1980s, at the Palais-Royal
The furnishing of the office of Jack Lang, French Minister of Culture in the 1980s, at the Palais-Royal. The plane-wood furniture was created by Andrée Putman, one of the leading French interior designers
Faith · Books
Tolkien in his letters on Eden on earth and the feeling of exile
But on this very unhappy earth there was, without doubt, an Eden. We all think of it: the whole of our nature, in its best and least corrupted, its tenderest and most human expressions, is still pervaded by a sense of “exile”. From Tolkien’s letters.
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Café de France in 1979 and Today
Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
Did you, too, imagine Ron Weasley's return to Hogwarts rather differently?
Rupert Grint on the set of "Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities" two years ago
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