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The Pushkin Museum turns 111 as director Elizaveta Likhacheva invites guests to celebrate

To the country's finest museum, our dear and beloved Pushkin Museum, 111 years old today. Yelizaveta Likhacheva, Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, invites you to celebrate this great anniversary

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Here's Paul I, and I have nothing to add

Faith · Art · Science · Nature

The Prophet Jonah and the Whale

The Prophet Jonah and the whale. By Tommaso di Antonio Finiguerra, an artist of the early Italian Renaissance and the Florentine school. It is curious that, in place of a whale, Finiguerra drew the heraldic dolphin of Florence, enlarged to improbable dimensions. As for the likelihood of surviving inside the

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The Habsburg Family Tree

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The Kostroma Museum-Reserve holds an interesting collection of carved icons, among them this highly detailed Last Judgement of the 19th century

Jesus is seated upon a blue sphere. At the centre is the Etimasia, the judgement throne, where souls will be judged. At the right hand of Christ are the righteous, making their way into the garden of Paradise with the Mother of God and the saints. At the left hand

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“Maiden on the Beast” by Natalya Goncharova from the “Harvest” polyptych and the Apocalypse

The Maiden on the Beast. Natalia Goncharova. 1911. Kostroma Museum-Reserve collection; the painting is on permanent display at the Romanov Museum. "The Maiden on the Beast" is part of the nine-part polyptych "The Harvest", whose paintings are now held in different collections, while two

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I have a dream: that all museums would open at 10 a.m. at the very latest

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Russian History for Children

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The Lenin Monument in Kostroma, Erected on the Pedestal of the Monument to the 300th Anniversary of the House of Romanov

The Lenin monument in Kostroma, erected on the pedestal of the monument to the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov. One might say that this monument reflects three milestones of Russian history: the Tsarist, the Soviet and the present day, to which the monument owes the gaping holes in

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The first issue of the journal of geography, natural sciences, inventions and observations "Vokrug sveta" [Around the World], 1861

The first issue of the journal of geography, natural sciences, inventions and observations "Vokrug sveta" [Around the World], 1861. The journal is still published, with brief interruptions, and is the oldest regional studies and popular science magazine in the country

Map of Europe with countries coloured by train speed in kilometres per hour, Spain and France shown in dark green.

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Map of train speeds in European countries, highest in Spain and France

Train speeds in Europe. We are doing decently, but one would like to match Spain, or at least Italy

White frames on a wooden wall hold photographs of restaurant guests, including a man in a suit and a woman wearing pearls beside a man.

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Photographs of Georgy and Maria Romanov on the wall of the Old Pier restaurant in Kostroma

I do love studying the boards of honoured guests in restaurants. In the Staraya Pristan in Kostroma I found a photograph of Georgy Mikhailovich Romanov and Maria Vladimirovna Romanova, which answered the question of whether the present representatives of the Russian Imperial House had ever visited the city that was

Alexandr Radayev