Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi in the film adaptation of Ian Fleming's James Bond novel

Daniela Bianchi and Sean Connery during the filming of Terence Young's From Russia with Love, 1963.

In the film based on Ian Fleming's novel, Sean Connery plays James Bond for the second time, while Daniela Bianchi plays Tatiana Romanova, a clerk at the Soviet consulate in Istanbul. The young woman does not suspect that she is being manipulated by the criminal organisation SPECTRE, which intends to use her to lure Bond into a trap and eliminate him. Amid espionage, seduction and deceit, their flight aboard the Orient Express leads to one of the best-known denouements of the early years of the super-agent saga. The success of the film helped to secure Sean Connery's place as Agent 007 for many years to come

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Madonna with Cherubim in Milan's Brera: from Bellini to Mantegna

"Madonna with Cherubim" was long considered the work of Giovanni Bellini, until in 1885, during restoration, features characteristic of his chief rival, and incidentally his relative, Andrea Mantegna, came to light. What misled viewers was a softness uncharacteristic of Mantegna. Despite the established title, the Madonna and Child

Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

The silliest thing about this renaming is its poor timing. For when the Pushkin Museum was offered, as a gift, the greatest collection of contemporary art of the second half of the twentieth century, the collection of Peter Ludwig, the very reason for the refusal was the condition that the

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Voiture woke Count de Guiche at night to announce that he was married

The Comte de Guiche asked Vincent Voiture, a man renowned for his wit, whether it was true that he was married. Voiture gave no answer. But he came to the count after midnight, woke him and said: "I have come to tell you that I am married". De

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Madonna with Cherubim in Milan's Brera: from Bellini to Mantegna

Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

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Voiture woke Count de Guiche at night to announce that he was married