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Alexandr Radayev
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Mikhail Bulgakov at Twenty
Books · People
God, how I long to live!..
God, how I long to live!.. Even as a little mouse I would live out my days and sprinkle my burrow with tears And, in rapture, tear open the little shirt on my chest, And carefully chew a last year's crust. Literal translation God, how I long to
NB! · Observations · Pop Culture
The author recalls 1990s Russian television and compares it with today's
Remember him? I count the 1990s as the golden years of Russian television. Nowadays it is all straw.
In the Press · Faith · The East · Society
The Guardian once ran a rather strange story about how, in a telephone conversation with French President Jacques Chirac in 2003, George W. Bush appealed to their shared Christian faith as grounds for invading Iraq
The Guardian once ran a rather strange story about how, in a telephone conversation with French President Jacques Chirac in 2003, George W. Bush appealed to their shared Christian faith as grounds for invading Iraq. Bush is supposed to have said to Chirac something along these lines: “Gog and Magog
Coming Up · Art · London
The star lot of Christie’s forthcoming March sale will be Gerhard Richter’s landscape “Schober (Haybarn)”, painted in 1984
The canvas carries a pre-sale estimate of £6–8 million
Art · People
Welsh hyperrealist painter David Pugh Evans, who lived from 1942 to 2020
The Stain. The Welsh hyperrealist painter David Pugh Evans (1942-2020)
Archive · Cinema · Mores · Saint Petersburg
It's a Proper Circus!
Such was the look of the wooden structure that housed theatrical and circus performances at public festivities: the booth, or balagan. This one is the celebrated balagan of the merchant Nikolaev, set up in the Admiralty District of Saint Petersburg. It was called the "Great Roller Coaster" (Bolshoy
Cinema · Books · Pop Culture
Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Art
The fresco "Procession of the Righteous into Paradise" by Andrei Rublev and Daniil Chorny, created in 1408 for the Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir
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Yuri Nikulin in the film "Andrei Rublev"
Society
Italy's first Winter Olympic Games were held from 26 January to 5 February 1956 in the pre-Alpine town of Cortina d'Ampezzo, just as they are today
The Winter Olympics were the first for athletes from the USSR, who won the unofficial team standings