Four-year-old Luise Perthes, captured by her parents' friend Philipp Otto Runge at the moment she realised that in the future she was destined to become a misanthropic lady with pigeons, wandering Central Park in New York in search of Kevin McCallister

Four-year-old Luise Perthes, captured by her parents' friend Philipp Otto Runge at the moment she realised that in the future she was destined to become a misanthropic lady with pigeons, wandering Central Park in New York in search of Kevin McCallister. Portrait of 1805, environs of Hamburg. Klassik Stiftung Weimar. The painting can be seen at the exhibition of Romanticism in the New Tretyakov Gallery. Brenda Fricker, the actress who played the marginal pigeon lady in Home Alone 2, is, incidentally, an Oscar winner, and last year complained of loneliness and of Christmas and New Year being sad holidays for her; Macaulay Culkin does not keep in touch with his former co-star

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is 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

Four-year-old Luise Perthes, captured by her parents' friend Philipp Otto Runge at the moment she realised that in the future she was destined to become a misanthropic lady with pigeons, wandering Central Park in New York in search of Kevin McCallister

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

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