Cinema · Observations
By the way, the film is available not only on Wink, but on YouTube too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T04POnbynJY
Alexandr Radayev
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German photographer Herbert List created Memento 1945, a series of more than 200 images of post-war Munich, exploring the theme of death in the city
German photographer Herbert List created Memento 1945, a series of more than 200 images of post-war Munich, exploring the theme of death in the city. Among the most striking in their contrasts were the pictures of the ruins of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, with its dead, shattered
Books · Society · People
Garibaldi met Cuneo in Taganrog and swore an oath to fight for Italy
Taganrog is the only Russian city that Garibaldi names in his memoirs. And it is no accident that Garibaldi is commemorated in Taganrog by two monuments. Giuseppe Garibaldi arrived in Taganrog aboard a small merchant vessel with the most prosaic of purposes: to buy flour of a variety popular in
Archive · People
In spring 1833 in a Taganrog tavern Garibaldi heard about Mazzini and Young Italy
In Taganrog, in one of the streets nearest the port, there was an old tavern. In the spring of 1833 many Italians gathered there around a young dark-haired man with a shining eye and an inspired tongue. It was a spacious room, its walls blackened by tobacco smoke. The
Archive · Art · Books · Ethnography
A Married Cossack Woman in a Headdress Covering Her Hair, and a Young Girl with a Ribbon Plaited into Her Braid, from Cherkassk
An engraved sketch from the atlas "Travels through the Southern Governorships of the Russian Empire in the Years 1793 and 1794" by the German-Russian encyclopaedist Peter Simon Pallas
NB! · Archive · Art
Athens, 1953, Henri Cartier-Bresson
NB! · Books · Moscow · Observations
Antiquarian bookshop “Lyudi i veshchi” on fire in Starosadsky Lane, Kitay-gorod
The antiquarian bookshop “Lyudi i veshchi” [People and Things] is on fire in Starosadsky Lane, in Kitay-gorod. I hope there are neither people nor valuable things inside at the moment
NB! · Architecture · Art · Paris
A table with a base of Willendorf Venuses in the house of the contemporary French artist Gérard Garouste
Art · Monarchies · Humour
Engraving by an anonymous engraver after a drawing by Hendrick Goltzius, around 1600
Prince Charles in an engraving 400 years old? Anonymous engraver, after a drawing by Hendrik Goltzius, c. 1600.
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Lost in Thought
Cinema · London · Monarchies · Humour
The British throne from George II to his grandson and on to Queen Victoria
It is not often that a grandfather hands the throne to a grandson rather than a son. But George II and George III are precisely such a case. True, if George III quite conventionally passed the baton to his son, George IV, the latter was succeeded by his younger brother
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Paris
Viollet-le-Duc's definition of restoration and the rebuilding of Notre-Dame
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, faced with the difficult choice of which of Notre-Dame's historical iterations to follow in restoring it, wrote that in such circumstances it is best of all to try to imagine oneself in the place of… Yet I suspect that he imagined not only