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Alexandr Radayev
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Prince Andrew of Greece after his exile and his son Philip's attitude towards him
Fathers come in all sorts. One of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark's relatives described him as a "deeply unhappy man". Andreas parted from his wife soon after his expulsion from Greece and spent the rest of his life with his mistress in Monte Carlo, where
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Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Queen Victoria's great-granddaughter Alice of Battenberg, and their youngest child Philip in 1925
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This is how the solemn requiem for King Louis XVI is held in the churches of France
Monarchies · Society · Paris · People
Execution of Louis XVI by guillotine on 21 January 1793 and the question of his guilt
On 21 January 1793 the 38-year-old citizen Louis Capet, formerly known as King Louis XVI, was executed by guillotine. To the very end he insisted on his innocence. Yet by almost any reasonable standard he was, in all likelihood, guilty of treason after all, though he did not
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Orestes in Bouguereau's painting, cropped to exclude the Furies pursuing him
I rather wanted to rescue Orestes, pursued by the Furies, from his importunate company. Really, without these charming ladies Bouguereau's painting is far better
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Model in a long pink padded coat on a runway in a white hall
Monarchies · Paris · Pop Culture
Prince Nikolai of Denmark takes part in the Rains show at Paris Fashion Week
Prince Nikolai of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, 22, grandson of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and son of Prince Joachim and Alexandra, at Paris Fashion Week. This season Prince Nikolai took part in the show of the unisex Fall/Winter 2022-2023 collection by Rains, the conceptual neo-Scandinavian outerwear
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Agnolo Bronzino's Allegorical Portrait of Dante on display in a museum
Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums
An allegorical portrait of Dante, painted in 1532‒1533 by the Medici court artist Agnolo Bronzino, will be on show in Moscow at the Voznesensky Centre until 20 February, in an exhibition curated by the Pushkin Museum's chief research fellow Victoria Marko
An allegorical portrait of Dante, painted in 1532‒1533 by the Medici court artist Agnolo Bronzino, will be on show in Moscow at the Voznesensky Centre until 20 February, in an exhibition curated by the Pushkin Museum's chief research fellow Victoria Markova. The painting, which was considered lost
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Reconstructed outfit of Viktor Tsoi on a mannequin in a museum display
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Pop Culture
At the Manege, on a very high level, runs the exhibition "Viktor Tsoi
At the Manege, on a very high level, runs the exhibition "Viktor Tsoi. The Hero's Path", with a beautiful audiovisual narrative about the life and work of the poet. The exhibition includes personal belongings, recordings, drawings and artefacts. Serious research has gone into it. I was