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Alexandr Radayev
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Two men with film cameras before the damaged Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag
Coming Up · Archive · Museums · Observations
Have you ever wondered what Berlin looked like in the first months after Victory?
Have you ever wondered what Berlin looked like in the first months after Victory? The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center has opened the exhibition “Unknown Berlin. May 1945”, which brings together previously unpublished photographs of Berlin in the spring and summer of 1945: people in the city, victorious soldiers, high-
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A subscriber informs me in a private message that the letter was written with a broad-nibbed pen, not a pointed one
A subscriber informs me in a private message that the letter was written with a broad-nibbed pen, not a pointed one. Having looked through the other comments of the esteemed Matroskin on Dzen, I understand that, contrary to the instructions, he has rather incautiously lapsed into dotage(
Archive · Observations · Society · Humour
A 1933 letter from Vitebsk asking for spoons and bread is called a forgery by a reader
Some time ago a letter from 1933, found in an old book, was published on "The Golden Age". In it a certain woman describes the grim state of affairs in Vitebsk and asks the relative to whom the letter is addressed to send her a dozen silver teaspoons.
NB! · Science · Education
A Very Simple Explanation of What Aerodynamics Is
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Cast-iron post with relief decoration at a building corner beside a yellow gas pipe
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Heritage
A splendid cast-iron post of the mid-nineteenth century in Bryusov Lane, all that remains of the old estate that once stood on this spot
A splendid cast-iron post of the mid-nineteenth century in Bryusov Lane, all that remains of the old estate that once stood on this spot. Only recently the post was carefully restored by the lads from “Vspomnit Vse”, for which they have our gratitude and respect
Archive · New York · People · Humour
Engels's letter to Marx of 24 August 1853 with remarks on Abraham Jacobi
F. Engels, a sprightly 33, lives in his father's house and is forever cadging money from him. He sneers at the intimate life of the 23-year-old A. Jacobi, who had spent a year in prison over the sham Cologne Communist Trial, been convicted of "insulting
Art · Observations · Humour
The Sculptor, 1964
The Sculptor, 1964. By the American realist painter John Koch (1909-1978). When the model quite literally gives off fire: having taken the measurements of his nude sitter, the master has nothing left to do but light a cigarette with shaking hands, never letting go of the callipers. I simply
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The political force that is missing now
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The East · Geography · Maps · Observations · Nature
The Kapchagay Reservoir, created in 1969, on a map of Alexander the Great's empire
The map of Alexander the Great's empire caught my interest for its easternmost part. If one looks at the north-eastern frontier of Alexander's conquests, where they run up against the unsubdued Massagetae and Saka, one notices an amusing thing: the Central Asian lakes Issyk-Kul