Monarchies · Observations · Heritage · Paris
How do you like Louis Philippe with painted lips? I never cared for the Pear King, but I see nothing amusing in the fact that someone has rouged the lips of his statue at Les Invalides. The saddest thing about this act of vandalism is that lipstick scarcely comes off
The East · Mores · Society · Humour
There is a tale about Soviet diplomats in China in the 1950s: they refused to ride in rickshaws, since to them the rickshaw seemed the very embodiment of the exploitation of man by man, even though giving up this transport meant endless lateness. In those years China still suffered from
NB! · Art · Museums · Humour
Zeus: a boy is seduced by an eagle, a girl by a swan. The main thing is not to get them mixed up. Museum of Fine Arts, Lisbon
Cinema · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
In Netflix's The Last Czars, this is what we are invited to take for the heir to the Russian throne, Nicholas Alexandrovich, at the funeral of Alexander III. Let me remind you that Nicholas was 26 🤷🏽♂️ Of course, in former years people looked older and worse than we
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Architecture · Cinema · Heritage
The Rostov Kremlin is, beyond doubt, one of the most famous historical architectural complexes in Russia. Every year many millions of people stroll through its chambers, corridors and along its walls, in the company of the heroes of the Soviet comedy "Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession". It was Rostov,
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The end of 1891. The Governor-General of Turkestan, Vrevsky, is interested only in women and asparagus, while Annenkov makes the starving hack at the ice on the Volga by hand. Russia and her rulers do not change, even a hundred years on
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Dear friends, thank you very much for your birthday wishes! In return, I congratulate you all on the approaching New Year and wish you happiness and good fortune!
Archaeology · Art · Museums · Mores
Before the New Year, a gripping tale for you of the eighties, an ancient statue and the Getty collection. At the close of 1983 the art dealer Gianfranco Becchina approached the Getty Museum in California with an offer to sell it a superbly preserved marble statue of the 6th century
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Kouros. Greek sculpture, approximately 6th century BC, Getty Museum
Interviews · Education · People
In the decades she headed the Sovremennik, she dismissed only one actor, for failing to appear at a performance because he was engaged in a commercial touring production. Listen to Galina Borisovna tell this story and others herself on "Line of Life": https://tvkultura.ru/video/show/brand_