Coming Up · Museums · Society · Paris · Society Pages
Little Macron with the President of Italy, 81-year-old Sergio Mattarella, before the Mona Lisa. They pledge allegiance to great art on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition from the Capodimonte Museum at the Louvre, "Naples in Paris". Not long ago, relations between France and
Aristocracy · Monarchies · Observations
You may marvel along with me, if you too had no idea that the descendants of Montezuma Xocoyotzin, the last Aztec emperor, exist today as a European aristocratic family. They bear the title of Dukes of Montezuma de Tultengo. In all, Montezuma II had between 19 and 150 children by
Art · Museums · People
Repin painted his last self-portrait in 1920, at the age of 76. Those years proved a very hard time in his life. His wife had been dead for some years, and for some years he had been cut off from family and friends by borders: after the revolution the
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"...I love art more than virtue, more than people, than my nearest and dearest, than my friends, more than any happiness or joys of our life," from Ilya Repin's letter to the art critic Stasov. In this studio on the first floor of his house Repin
Architecture · Museums · Mores · People
Ilya Repin and his wife Natalia Nordman devised an unusual table for their house in the village of Kuokkala, which allowed everyone to sit down to dinner in comfort and required no servants at the feast. This remarkable table, far ahead of its time, had two parts: a moving one
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Architecture · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
In 1933 a unique automated bakery was built in Leningrad, in which the bread-making cycle was automated to the greatest possible degree. The conveyor line was arranged in rings set on different floors of the building. Flour was delivered to the very top, where the sourdough department was situated.
The East · Cinema · Society
Guy Ritchie's much-discussed film about an American military operation in Afghanistan, released in Russian cinemas as "The Translator", is in the original still called The Covenant, which means "agreement, compact, testament". So the point of the film is not, after all, the mere
Archive · Education · People
Alexandr Fyodorovich Kerensky and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin may have known each other from early childhood. Their fathers were friends and kept up a close relationship. Kerensky's father was the director of the Simbirsk Classical Gymnasium for Boys, from which Lenin graduated. When Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov died, Fyodor Mikhailovich
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Portrait of a Boy with a Book. Unknown artist, first half of the nineteenth century. Collection of the Romanov Museum, Kostroma Museum-Reserve. The book reads: “Military Regulations. Left, forward, march.” Two hundred years have passed, and how familiar the wording still is! The first half of the nineteenth century