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Knight Ivanhoe caught up in Moscow's renovation programme in 2021
Sir Ivanhoe falls victim to renovation. Moscow, 2021
Alexandr Radayev
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Wallis's meeting with the Queen Mother and her burial beside her husband at Frogmore
The Dowager Duchess of Windsor, a.k.a. Wallis Simpson, in England in May 1972, before the funeral of her husband, the former King Edward VIII. Wallis does not merely look lonely but frightened: she could hardly fail to dread a meeting with the Queen Mother, whom she had not
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A Disney Remake of "The Pokrovsky Gates"
Books · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society Pages
The Library of Foreign Literature opens a research hall with books of Vyacheslav Ivanov
What is the indispensable element of any scientific institution? Why, a hallmark of quality, an emblem that would shine like a star on the lapel of that institution's jacket. Today, in one of Moscow's jackets (the Library of Foreign Literature), a very important pocket was unstitched,
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Layering has long been out of fashion, MA
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Stills from Marlen Khutsiev's 1965 film "I Am Twenty"
Stills from Marlen Khutsiev's 1965 film "I Am Twenty". So the young people embraced a little, rolled about on one another beside a football pitch, danced chastely, and nothing came of it: not a single Komsomol card fell off. Who knows what another 20 years will
Books · Moscow · Observations · Humour
It is alarming that Dasha Veledeyeva of Harper's Bazaar repeats the mistake of Lyudmila Sviridova from the bread factory, who was let into the general reading room (Hall No. 3, though the largest in Europe) and told that it was the academic hall (Hall No.
Girls, the academic hall is straight down the corridor, not to the right!!!
Observations · Society · Paris · Humour
Hidalgo and the Élysée Palace, a Libération image and rats in Paris
Hidalgo is finally ready! Destination: the Élysée Palace. I do not know who hides behind the pseudonym Coco at the newspaper Libération, but this documentary image vividly reminded me how, on my last trip to Paris, I happened to meet more rats than Parisians. The fault lay not with my
Monarchies · Mores · Society · Humour
A 55-year-old Australian claims to be the secret son of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker
A 55-year-old Australian claims to be the secret son of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker. For years now, Simon Charles Dorante-Day has been trying to prove it. By his account, he was born to 19-year-old Camilla by 17-year-old Charles. Adopted at ten months
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At a meeting with the Hungarian clergy, Pope Francis recalled Rubik's Cube and said it was a good game but not a model for life
At a meeting with the Hungarian clergy, Pope Francis recalled Rubik's Cube and said it was a good game but not a model for life. As ever, I agree with His Holiness, for everyone knows perfectly well that the finest model for life is Cindy Crawford
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