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Alexandr Radayev
Cinema · Monarchies · Education · Humour
You walk into your exam on medieval European history remembering only that Sandra Bullock ought to be ruling Genovia right now
Familiar feeling? Incidentally, you end up at the resit, because it was Anne Hathaway
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A Passion for Greece: Jean Shrimpton and Jean-Loup Sieff in a Richard Avedon Story for Vogue, 1967
Almaty · Faith · Society · People
Rehabilitation of Metropolitan Joseph (Chernov) of Alma-Ata and Kazakhstan (1893-1975), accused after the war of collaborating with the occupiers, has recently been revoked
Metropolitan Joseph was a man whom many tipped as Patriarch of All Russia after the death of Alexy I. He is also the author of the legendary retort to the remark that Yuri Gagarin had flown into space and not seen God, which ran as follows: Yuri Gagarin did not
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The Old School
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I Need Legolas as Never Before
Faith · Society · Pop Culture · Humour
Elon Musk's father attends an Easter service, seated on a chair
Why on earth was he invited to the church at all? Elon Musk's father made himself comfortable at the Easter service
Faith · Art · Books
Kuchelbecker's poem on the Resurrection and Nesterov's 1892 sketch for a mosaic
Christ is Risen, brothers and sisters! Truly He is Risen! Rejoice and sing, my soul, Heiress of the heavens: Christ is risen, Your Saviour is truly risen! Literal translation Yes! Hell has grown faint before the Mighty One: From the fetters of the tomb, From the night of death, God
Faith · Moscow · Observations · Society
Have you also noticed how little Easter symbolism there is in the city, and how little Easter programming on television, this year?
Have you also noticed how little Easter symbolism there is in the city, and how little Easter programming on television, this year? And the few modest Easter decorations in the capital of the country with the largest Orthodox population in the world look particularly odd, considering that the New Year
Faith · Moscow · Observations · Education · Society
A lecturer at the MSU Faculty of Journalism reports that, for the first time in three decades, the church of the Martyr Tatiana at Moscow State University has been forbidden to take its Easter procession any further than the faculty courtyard, citing Covi
For the previous thirty years, a fifteen-minute procession of the cross got in the way of no traffic whatever. Nor do I recall any such restrictions being imposed on rallies and concerts, or on the mass festive and prayer gatherings of other faiths, running to many thousands of people
Faith · Heritage · Science
Chronology of scientific studies of the Shroud of Turin from 1898 to 2025
In 1898 the photographer Secondo Pia photographed the Shroud of Turin and discovered that the image behaves like a photographic negative. The positive appeared only on the negative plate. This observation became the first scientific fact about the relic that received no simple explanation. In 1969–1973 the Vatican formed
Monarchies · Observations · People
Coronation jeton of Elizabeth Petrovna, 1742, with a crown in rays of light
Grace from On High. The inscription on the coronation token of Elizabeth Petrovna, 1742 And the reign of Peter's daughter truly was a gracious one