Architecture · Geography · Observations
The street descends from Russian Hill, a city hill named Russian Hill because of an old Russian cemetery on its summit. The cemetery dated from the time of Russian colonisation of America; buried here were Russian merchants, sailors and soldiers from Fort Ross (known to the Americans as Fort Ross)
Books · People
Velimir Khlebnikov
NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
Mobile chairs for visitors at the Pushkin Museum. So that, having sat down to rest, you need not fret that you have taken someone's workplace
Aristocracy · Faith · London · Monarchies · People
A woman in a nun's habit among personages in crowns and diamonds: the founder of the sisterhood of Greek Orthodox nuns, the Order of Martha and Mary, Prince Philip's mother, Alice of Battenberg, at the coronation of her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth II. At birth Alice
Faith · Art
Pontius Pilate presents the captive Christ to a people thirsting for an execution and pronounces: "Behold the man!" The expression on Pilate's face remains a riddle: what does he feel at this moment, compassion, regret or disappointment? The commission came from a wealthy Venetian merchant. Researchers
Coming Up · Moscow
Matters take an unexpected turn, and the audition goes nothing like what was expected. The ladies share the details of their artistic fates, speak of what was and what never came to pass, of life, love and dreams. "Casting 81/18" at the Taganka Theatre. A kind, light
NB! · Aristocracy · Archive · London · Monarchies
The East · Art · Monarchies · Ethnography
Persian Carpet by Mohtashem of Kashan with a Portrait of Nicholas II. Mohtashem was a celebrated weaver who, in the Iranian city of Kashan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, produced carpets so skilful and of such high quality that his name became a byword for an entire
Archaeology · Faith · Museums
Votive clay plaque of the 4th century BC from the Sanctuary of Eleusis, with four holes at the corners for hanging. The image on the plaque lifts a corner of the veil over the riddle of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Demeter sits on a cista, a chest on legs, beside Persephone,
NB! · Museums · Heritage · Society
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Art · Books · Science
Epochs change, but the wish of artists to capture people's rapture in reading remains unchanged. Paintings of people reading are an excellent illustration to an account of an important article from Bookmate, the book service of Yandex Plus. The neurophysiologist who serves as the article's expert