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# For those who skipped a great many lessons, let me remind you that we began October with an introductory course in alchemy, and then spoke
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/dlia-tekh-kto-mnogo-progulival-napominaiu-chto-oktiabr-mesiats-my-nachali-s-vvodnogo-kursa-v-alkhimiiu-a-potom-pogovorili/
- Published: 2025-11-02T14:02:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:28:12.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Faith, Art, Observations, Heritage, Society, Paris, Rome

📌 about [works of art stolen by the Nazis](https://theparnassian.com/do-100-000-proizvedenii-iskusstva-konfiskovannykh-natsistami-mogut-nakhoditsia-v-muzeiakh-ssha/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 about [the fate of Pompeii](https://theparnassian.com/arkheologi-issleduia-iuzhnuiu-chast-pompei-obnaruzhili-sledy-dvukh-voln-povtornogo-zaseleniia-v-kontse-i-nachale-iii-veka-i-v-iv-v-vekakh/?ref=theparnassian.com) after the eruption of Vesuvius

📌 about why one should not [refuse Donald Trump](https://theparnassian.com/donald-tramp-vo-vremia-nedavnego-gosudarstvennogo-vizita-v-velikobritaniiu-namerevalsia-prepodnesti-koroliu-charlzu-podarok-kotoryi-by-simvoliziroval-amerikano-britanskoe-voennoe-sotrud/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 about [the turbulence in the Anglican Church](https://theparnassian.com/anglikanskaia-tserkov-nigerii-krupneishaia-anglikanskaia-obshchina-v-mire-s-bolee-chem-18-millionami-prikhozhan-obiavila-o-svoei-dukhovnoi-nezavisimosti-i-razryve-sviazei-s-tserkoviu-an/?ref=theparnassian.com) following the appointment of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury

📌 about [the place of beauty](https://theparnassian.com/v-srednie-veka-urodlivye-obrazy-prednaznachalis-dlia-togo-chtoby-pugat-i-cherez-etot-ispug-dostigat-nekikh-didakticheskikh-nastavlennicheskikh-tselei/?ref=theparnassian.com) and ugliness in the modern world

📌 we recalled [the standard Soviet club](https://theparnassian.com/tipovoi-klub-v-nashe-vremia-eto-kogda-u-vsekh-unikalnyi-stil-no-odinakovye-krossy-i-trek-list-i-dazhe-okhrannik-znaet-chto-vy-siuda-ne-za-veselem-a-za-podtverzhdeniem-samootsenki/?ref=theparnassian.com); where would we be without nostalgia for the USSR?

📌 we discussed the much-talked-of [premiere of Kirill Serebrennikov’s Hamlet](https://theparnassian.com/vsiu-nedeliu-vse-moi-znakomye-v-parizhe-obsuzhdaiut-premeru-kirilla-serebrennikova-v-teatre-shatle-gde-predstavili-spektakl-gamlet/?ref=theparnassian.com) at the Théâtre du Châtelet

📌 and [the Gerhard Richter retrospective](https://theparnassian.com/posetil-vchera-otkrytie-retrospektivy-gerkharda-rikhtera-v-fonde-louis-vuitton/?ref=theparnassian.com) at the Fondation Louis Vuitton

📌 we spoke of how [to keep one’s dignity](https://theparnassian.com/mariia-antuanetta-v-protsessii-na-eshafot-16-oktiabria-1793-goda/?ref=theparnassian.com) even on the scaffold, and of how modern France has lost its own, [dancing on the bones of Marie Antoinette](https://theparnassian.com/s-drugoi-storony-na-nabroske-davida-bessporno-izobrazhena-ne-velichestvennaia-koroleva-frantsii-a-osuzhdionnaia-izmozhdennaia-zhenshchina-gotovaia-k-kazni/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 the month did not pass without sad news, for example, [the closure of the Antico Caffè](https://theparnassian.com/zakrylos-stareishee-kafe-rima/?ref=theparnassian.com), the oldest café in Rome

📌 and about the thrifty methods of [restoration](https://theparnassian.com/gde-by-ni-remontirovali-kulturnye-obekty-vyigravshei-storonoi-pochemu-to-ne-chasto-okazyvaiutsia-sami-pamiatniki/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 yet alongside the robberies of French museums, the worst news of the month was [the desecration of Saint Peter’s Basilica](https://theparnassian.com/to-chto-segodnia-proizoshlo-v-sobore-sviatogo-petra-v-rime-dumaiu-vse-uzhe-slyshali-ob-oskvernenii-altaria-dazhe-ne-budu-povtoriat-kakim-nizkim-obrazom-strashnyi-naryv-zapushchennoi-bol/?ref=theparnassian.com) in Rome