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Alexandr Radayev
Art · Cinema · Humour
Pepelats art object built by Uralkhimmash welders stands on the plant grounds
A pepelats, as is well known, is very rarely adapted for horizontal travel across the surface of a planet. Before us is a classic model of the civilian cylindrical pepelats, built by the welders of the Uralkhimmash plant. The art object stands on the plant's grounds and serves
NB! · Aristocracy · Architecture · London · Monarchies · Mores
During his visit to England in the 1780s, François de La Rochefoucauld could not believe that King George III lived in the modest palace of Kew, with its two tiny outbuildings, while Louis XVI had Versailles
NB! · Cinema · Observations · Humour
Everyone will remember a VGIK student like this
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Interior of a vintage car seen through the window in a museum hall
NB! · Museums · Society · People
The Chaika in which Boris Yeltsin, First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU, was driven
The Chaika in which Boris Yeltsin, First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU, was driven. Yekaterinburg, Yeltsin Center
NB! · Faith · Humour
Step Into Paradise, There Seems to Have Been a Mistake
Art · Museums
American art from its founding figure, John Smibert, with his 1739 portrait of Benjamin Colman, to the Native American artist and curator Jaune, quick glance, Smith with his 1998 mixed-media painting "I See Red: Target Dances"
American art from its founding figure, John Smibert, with his 1739 portrait of Benjamin Colman, to the Native American artist and curator Jaune, quick glance, Smith with his 1998 mixed-media painting "I See Red: Target Dances". Such is the evolution. New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
NB! · Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies
The future Queen Elizabeth II with her maternal grandmother, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, in the garden of the family home, St Paul's Walden Bury, in Hertfordshire
London · Monarchies · People
Elizabeth II in her last summer with her younger grandchildren and great-grandchildren
On 21 April Elizabeth II would have turned 97. In the photograph the Queen is pictured in her last summer, surrounded by her younger grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Beside Her Majesty are her grandchildren Lady Louise Windsor and James, Earl of Wessex, the children of Prince Edward; her great-grandchildren
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The hall of Villa Pirondini, an eighteenth-century residence where in the summer of 1990 the Italian band CCCP recorded the album Epica Etica Etnica Pathos
The hall of Villa Pirondini, an eighteenth-century residence where in the summer of 1990 the Italian band CCCP recorded the album Epica Etica Etnica Pathos. The photograph by Luigi Ghirri was on the album cover
Architecture · Moscow · Observations
Elephant-shaped house beside the road from Moscow to Chekhov is offered for rent
Anyone who has ever driven from Moscow to Chekhov cannot have failed to notice, to the right of the highway, a house in the shape of an elephant. Thanks to Avito I learned that this striking piece of real estate is available to rent, and at a very reasonable price