The house in Odessa where Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin lived. The Hotel du Nord stood here, and Pushkin stayed in it for a month in the summer of 1823. The street was then called Italianskaya; in 1880 it was renamed Pushkinskaya. In 1959 a Literary Memorial Museum was opened here
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. “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
