August. Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1691.
A reminder that July and August have for more than two thousand years now borne the names of the Roman emperors Julius Caesar and Octavian Augustus.
Julius Caesar, who gave the world a calendar almost matching the length of the solar year, named one of the months of the old Roman calendar, Quintilis, after himself. The name of his successor, Augustus, was given to the following month.
The Villa Marmottan library is a hidden sight of Paris, situated in the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt. This former mansion of the historian Paul Marmottan has today been turned into a unique public library under the aegis of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Unlike the popular Musée Marmottan Monet, this
Philosopher Reading. Rembrandt Be like this philosopher. Or like Rembrandt, for that matter. As far as your strength allows
In the Trans-Volga forests on the river Kerzhenets, not far from Semyonov in the Nizhny Novgorod region, stands a cross over the grave of Hieromonk Sophonty, one of the most revered fathers of the Old Believers. Tradition names Sophonty as one of seven Solovetsky monks who fled the monastery
A mural in Tomsk showing Saint Theodore of Tomsk, also known as Elder Fyodor Kuzmich, and Emperor Alexander I, whom many consider to be one and the same man. I am inclined to think so too. The man who called himself Fyodor Kuzmich appeared in 1836 in Perm Governorate, was