Art
Good Morning, Time to Get Up
Rembrandt, 1655
Alexandr Radayev
Aristocracy · Art · Museums
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in His Gallery in Brussels
David Teniers the Younger, 1650
Art · Moscow · Museums
Voting to Expel a Kulak from the Kolkhoz
Samuil Adlivankin, 1931, State Tretyakov Gallery collection. Photo from the exhibition The Trial: Franz Kafka and the Art of the 20th Century at the Jewish Museum.
Archive · People
Corporal Joseph Trumpeldor asks to keep his weapons after losing an arm at Port Arthur
"I have one arm left; but this one is the right. Therefore, wishing to go on sharing the soldier's life of battle with my comrades, I beg Your Honour's intercession for the issue to me of a sabre and a revolver," wrote Lance-Corporal
Cinema · Books · Observations
Frodo Baggins Was 33 When He Received the Ring of Power
He set out from Rivendell for Mount Doom only 17 years later. All that time Gandalf was gathering information about the Ring. Thus the Ring was destroyed when Frodo was already past 50. In the film adaptation, all of this took no more than a couple of weeks, or three
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Two curved blue elements shaped like an eyebrow and an eye
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums
Inlaid eyes from ancient Egyptian funerary equipment, usually made with glass and obsidian inserts
Eye-shaped elements of ancient Egyptian funerary furnishings. Such inlaid eyes usually contained glass and obsidian imitations of the pupil and the eyeball
Architecture · Moscow · Education
In 1912 Rerberg built the Elizabeth Girls’ Gymnasium in Bolshoy Kazenny Pereulok
The building of the Elizabeth Girls' Gymnasium at 9 Bolshoy Kazenny Lane was built in 1912. The gymnasium itself had been founded as early as 1880, but it stood at a different address, 11 Maroseyka. The building, designed by the architect Rerberg, author of the Central Telegraph Office and
Archaeology · Books · Heritage
Remains of Cyrene, which Herodotus reported as the chief city of Libya
Girls Are Standing, Standing to One Side. The ruins of Cyrene, the chief city of Libya according to Herodotus
NB! · Cinema · People
The Aesthetics of Jacques Tati
Faith · Books · Mores · Ethnography
Ilf and Petrov on the Russian Molokans of San Francisco in 1936
"And here is Russian Hill," said our mighty driver, shifting the lever into second gear. The car whirred and began to clamber up the cobbled roadway. No, nothing here recalled San Francisco! This little street looked more like the outskirts of old Tula or Kaluga. We stopped beside
NB! · Archive · Geography