Betty Ford, wife of the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford, dances on a table in the White House in 1977

I meant to be indignant and to write that it is unthinkable for a figure of such rank to dance on tables, but then I recalled the photograph of Galina Brezhneva dancing on a table, not in the White House, admittedly, but in her own flat, at a private gathering in 1992, that is, ten years after her father's death

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Betty Ford, wife of the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford, dances on a table in the White House in 1977

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s