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A Task from a Fourth-Form Russian Language Olympiad
A task from a fourth-form Russian language olympiad. Lyudmila Stefanovna gave her assessment
Alexandr Radayev
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The artist Vladimir Seleznev, in the company of the curator Vladislav Efimov, talks about his project "Oseyev", devoted to an invented utopian metropolis, the result of uncontrolled standardised building on urban land, which proved to be unwanted and fell
The artist Vladimir Seleznev, in the company of the curator Vladislav Efimov, talks about his project "Oseyev", devoted to an invented utopian metropolis, the result of uncontrolled standardised building on urban land, which proved to be unwanted and fell into decline. Seleznev problematises the frenzied mass construction in
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The Duchess of Cambridge, but judging by the outfit and the neck, the Duchess of Cornwall
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If we are speaking of dynastic weddings, then as regards the very recent marriage of another Romanov descendant, Prince Rostislav, of the line of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich, youngest son of Emperor Nicholas I…
The Nobility Assembly reports that it is troubled by invitations sent out in the names of the couple, in which Prince Rostislav Romanov is styled Son Altesse Impériale (His Imperial Highness). The nobles are sounding the alarm: the prince possesses no such title! The letter of 6 September runs roughly
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A Letter from the Russian Nobility Assembly Expressing Its Displeasure at Rostislav Rostislavovich Romanov's Proclaiming Himself an Imperial Highness in the Invitation to His Own Wedding
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Wedding of Georgy Romanov and Rebecca Bettarini set for 1 October in Saint Petersburg
Not Yet Married, and the Mother-in-Law Is Already Settling into Your Forebears' Two-Room Flat. Rebecca Bettarini, also known as Victoria Romanovna, the bride of our partially recognised claimant to the headship of the Russian Imperial House, George Mikhailovich Romanov, with her mother Carla Cacciatore Bettarini outside
Observations · Society · Nature · Ethnography
The killing of a white deer by Liverpool police and its symbolism in European culture
This morning in Liverpool, police killed a white stag that had the folly to run into the city. Yes, the animal might have been temporarily sedated and carried off elsewhere, but someone took the decision to deprive it of its life. In my view, this is a very bad omen
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A mother warns her son not to touch figs poisoned for her suspicious husband
What is care? It is when a mother warns her son not to touch the figs: she had, after all, been obliged to smear every fig in the garden with poison in order to dispatch a suspicious husband who would take no food that any other hand had touched
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The morning after the fire at Madame Tussaud's in London in 1925 looks much like the morning after a rave in 2021
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Why Does Dürer's Walrus Look So Much Like a Man from the Next Staircase Along?
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Late 18th-Century Satirical Print Contrasts a Libertine with a Skeleton
A satirical engraving of the late 18th century: a bon vivant with all the marks of dissipation (dice and cards, horse races, fashions and diverting novelettes) and, in opposition to him, a pensive corpse leaning on a stele bearing an edifying text. In theory, the picture is meant to remind
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Charlotte Despard, suffragist and anti-fascist, in Trafalgar Square in 1910 and 1933
The Anglo-Irish suffragist Charlotte Despard in Trafalgar Square in 1910 and in 1933. Across a gap of 23 years the woman lost none of her grip, her will to protest or her power to inspire a crowd. First she, a writer, pacifist, tax resister, philanthropist, socialist and vegetarian, stood