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Alexandr Radayev
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Valery Tishkov on the title Father of the Fatherland granted to Peter the Great in 1721
"..Notable in this respect is the act of 1721 that bestowed on Peter I the title of Emperor of All Russia. The members of the Senate and the Holy Synod asked the sovereign to take upon himself the title "Father of the Fatherland", since he had done
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Near the Monument to Bulat Okudzhava on the Old Arbat, Poor Mu-Mu Was Slaughtered About Half a Year Ago; Someone Suddenly Bought Up the Premises and Set Up the Election Headquarters of the Party of Growth There
Near the monument to Bulat Okudzhava on the Old Arbat, about half a year ago, poor Mu-Mu was slaughtered; someone suddenly bought up the premises and set up there the election headquarters of the Party of Growth. So what is one to do with such considerable floor space when
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Gilded fragment of an onion dome with a carved base at an exhibition
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Restored models of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral dome at the Museum of Architecture
Models of the dome of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour at the Restorer: A Profession exhibition in the Museum of Architecture. The models date from the 1840s and 1850s and were restored in our own time. They look very impressive; I had never looked at the Cathedral of Christ
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Portraits by Lawrence, Bol and Aspertini at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum
Why can't menswear be like this? Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum. Portrait of David Lyon, Thomas Lawrence, 1825. Portrait of a Youth in a Plumed Hat, Ferdinand Bol, 1647. Portrait of Tommaso Raimondi, Amico Aspertini, 1500.
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The History of the Golden Horde Is Inseparable from the Chronicle of Modern Kazakh Statehood, Says Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
In short, it is not only in Russia that politicians turn their gaze to the Middle Ages
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Sixteenth-century memento mori with a chained figure in a boxwood coffin amid flames
A sixteenth-century memento mori: a figurine in a boxwood coffin, chained and ringed with flames, somewhat recalls the plasticine works of the contemporary artist Tatyana Brodach. Let us be frank: the fellow burning in hell comes off rather better
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How to Recognise a Lady Blogger Without Her Instamask?
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The Expression to Wear When World Leaders Fail to Hear "the Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Peoples" at a Global Climate Conference
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A proud skeleton on a mountain of skulls: not a bad design for a monument to Napoleon, and one that remains apt for many a ruler even in our own day
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Bridget of Sweden, patron saint of Europe since 1999, in a painting by Hans Schäufelein
In 1999 John Paul II proclaimed Saint Bridget of Sweden a patroness of Europe. Renowned for her righteous life and her Revelations, the fourteenth-century saint is depicted in a painting by the German artist Hans Schäufelein before the Crucifix, dripping wax from a burning candle onto her hand in