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Exhibition of Old Believer icons opens 27 February in Clinton, Massachusetts

Exhibition of Old Believer icons to open in the United States. On 27 February, the Icon Museum and Study Center in Clinton, Massachusetts, will open the exhibition “Icons: The Old Believers and Their World”. The exhibition is devoted to the tradition of the Old Believer icon-painting centres of Palekh,

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Leonid Gubanov's poem about pencils, tears and a breakfast on the grass

Lord! Finish off the tears from our soul, the soft pencils sleep in their little white shirts. Tomorrow I shall take their heads off with a sharp razor. They will tell me: draw that breakfast on the grass. My golden one will become taller than the others, for the repose

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Russian Athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games

Faith · Books · Monarchies · Observations

Stefan Yavorsky in a 1704 sermon compared Russia to the chariot of Ezekiel

On Pharaoh's Cart. At the very beginning of the eighteenth century, Metropolitan Stefan Yavorsky, in his sermons, likens the Russian state, "our most glorious monarchy", to the chariot of Ezekiel. The comparison is most interesting, and not only because the chariot, which by design ought to

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A 1945 children's book, "Five Stamps", by the Soviet poet Vladimir Lifshits: a tale in verse about how a boy's father led his rifle battalion through five different countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland and Germany

It may be noted that in 1945 the expression "Russian soldier" was not yet taboo.

Black print on beige paper showing two toothy sea monsters and a whale, with a handwritten inscription and a red stamp below.

Art · People · Ethnography

Stone cut print after a drawing by Inuit artist Kiakshuk, made by his son Lukta Qiatsuk

Sea Monsters Devouring a Whale, 1961. A print after a drawing by Kiakshuk, an Inuit artist who was 75 at the time, had first turned to art at the age of 60, and had lived by hunting alone until then. The stone-cut print was made by his son Lukta

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Renoir Was Young Once Too, and We Have Frédéric Bazille to Thank for the Reminder

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I Looked at Dolly Parton's Wedding Photo and Realised That Our Dolly Is Nadezhda Kadysheva

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Uncle Sam has long had his eye on this morsel, and it seems he will have to eat it!

“Trouble in Cuba”: satirical illustration by Bernhard Gillam for the cover of the American magazine Judge, August 1895

Art · Madrid · Museums

In all likelihood, a depiction of a theatrical staging of Euripides' play "Heracles", which tells the myth of Heracles gone mad

On the stage of a theatre we see Heracles, driven to despair by the spirits of madness. The hero is ready to destroy his own family: he is about to throw his son, whom he holds in his arms, into a fire in which all his possessions are already burning.

Archaeology · Art · Madrid · Museums · Heritage · Paris

One of the most famous sculptures of the ancient world and arguably the greatest monument of Iberian art, the Lady of Elche, found in 1897, was soon after its discovery acquired by the Louvre for 4,000 francs

The masterpiece of Spanish antiquity remained in France until 1941, when Spain exchanged it, under a special programme, for several dozen other works of art and items of jewellery. The sculpture dates from the 4th century BC. Franco ordered the Lady of Elche to be displayed in the Prado National

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In the "Where to Go" section: a new selection of exhibition events in Moscow

📌 The exhibition "From Fabric to Space. Avant-Garde Women of Design" at the Museum of Decorative Art: until 29 March 📌 The joint exhibition by Veronika Kozachenok and Yegor Koreshkov "He / She" at Cube.Moscow: until 19 April 📌 13 February: opening of the exhibition "Behind the

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