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Alexandr Radayev
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The secret monastic tonsure of Alexey Losev, his skufia and two companions
On 3 June 1929 the philosopher Alexei Losev and his wife Valentina were secretly tonsured as monastics by the Athonite elder Archimandrite David, taking the names Andronik and Athanasia. It was a monastic tonsure "in the world", that is, without withdrawal to a monastery. The person goes on
Archive · Nature
Snowdrops
Photograph by Igor Gnevashev, 1965
Art · Museums · Society
European Commission accuses biennale of breaching sanctions over Russian participation
European Commission threatens to strip Venice Biennale of $2.3 million grant unless it drops the Russian pavilion. In a letter of 10 April addressed to the Biennale's president, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, the European Commission accused the organisers of breaching sanctions against Russia. The substance of the complaint: the
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84 musical theatres in the USSR by 1984 and Russia's opera houses opened in the Soviet period
By 1984 the USSR had 84 musical theatres, including 50 opera and ballet theatres and 34 theatres of musical comedy and operetta. There were theatres in every capital of the union republics, as well as in the large cultural and industrial centres: Leningrad, Novosibirsk, Perm, Irkutsk, Rostov-on-Don and
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Amazon to cut Kindle Store access for 2012 and older Kindle models from 20 May 2026
From 20 May 2026, owners of Kindle e-readers released in 2012 and earlier will lose access to the Amazon store. The devices will no longer be able to buy, borrow or download new books through the Kindle Store. The restriction affects every model from the very first Kindle of
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The Company of the Konstantin Stanislavsky Opera Theatre before the Set for the Production of "Eugene Onegin" in 1936
Books · Observations
It All Comes Down to Thoughts
It all comes down to thoughts. Thought is the beginning of everything. And thoughts can be controlled. And so the chief business of self-improvement is to work on one's thoughts Leo Tolstoy
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Isabella Rossellini and Monica Bellucci, 1992
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The universal favourite, the rubric, is back with you, and this week we are heading to:
🦖The solo exhibition by Rinat Volgami, "Wind", at Gallery 11.12 🌎Dani Pirogov's exhibition "Light Comes from Underground" at the Futuro gallery 🩺The contemporary art exhibition "Together" at Skolkovo 🏺The exhibition "Vladimir Salnikov and Nina Kotel. Two" at the Blar
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A House of the Early Sixteenth Century Has Been Put on Stilts in Manchester
A house of the early sixteenth century has been put on stilts in Manchester. It is interesting at last to see how old buildings can, after all, remain within modern urban development, were there only the will
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