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Alexandr Radayev
Books · Observations · Pop Culture
In his song, Butusov bids farewell to the America of westerns, Fenimore Cooper and Tom Sawyer
Have you ever wondered why, in that legendary song, Butusov bids farewell to America? And an America, moreover, where he has never been? He is not saying goodbye to the United States with its Statue of Liberty, or to the skyscrapers of New York. In fact the poet is taking
NB! · Cinema · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
Sergey Bodrov and Aleksey Balabanov on the Set of the Film "Brother"
NB! · Books · Mores · Nature
Wolves turn up so often in Latin fables and tales that Italian has kept the expression "lupus in fabula", "the wolf in the tale", which means much the same as the English "speak of the devil"
Architecture · Faith
This angular, ungainly concrete building, propped up by a single massive pier, is the Chapel of Saint Hildegard in Düsseldorf, built in 1962-1970 to a design by Gottfried Böhm
No decoration, no refinements, just bare concrete. Only a barely protruding bell tower slightly disturbs the Brutalist gloom of the concrete pile. The design echoes a number of other works by the famous architect, whose arsenal includes many churches that would serve perfectly well in the universe of "Mad
Faith
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh on the Annunciation and the free consent of the Mother of God
"The Annunciation is the day of the good news that there was found, in the whole world of men, a Virgin who believed in God so deeply, and was so profoundly capable of obedience and trust, that the Son of God could be born of Her. The Incarnation of
NB! · Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture
Retrofuturistic flying cars in the series Hello Tomorrow
Very impressed by the retro-futuristic flying machines in the series Hello Tomorrow. I should very much like to own such a luxurious motor
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Medieval miniature of dancers in burning costumes before courtiers
Art · London · Monarchies · Observations · Ethnography
The Green Man on the invitation and the origins of this motif in medieval art
The invitation to the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla is adorned with a pagan image of the Green Man. At the centre of the invitation sits the head of the Green Man, a widely known motif of medieval architecture, art and folklore. You will surely have seen,
Books · Monarchies · Moscow · Observations · Humour
Having breakfast at my beloved KM20 and delighting that a copy of unloved Prince Harry's book was a gift 🥰🥰 And wishing everyone a good morning 🌞 I set about reading at once, and so far these are not the worst memoirs I have come across
Not without oddities, though. On the very first page I opened there turned up an original passage in which Harry supposes that his DNA holds a rudimentary memory of the terrorist attack of 1979 in which Lord Mountbatten, his great-great-uncle, was killed
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Faith · New York
Illuminated crosses on New York skyscrapers at Easter in the 1950s and 1960s
Easter illumination on New York's skyscrapers in the 1950s and 1960s. For many years in a row the city was decked out for Easter with luminous crosses on a great number of landmark buildings, but at some point it all came to an end...
Art · Moscow · Museums
Door from “The Miserly Knight” insured for a million roubles at the Stanislavsky Museum
A famous door from "The Miserly Knight" has been insured for a million roubles at the Stanislavsky Museum. The production was staged by Stanislavsky's Society of Amateur Actors in the building of the English Club. Stanislavsky grew so fond of the door, made to Sologub'