Colonel general in uniform with medals: article on Alexander Sakharovsky
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Rossy de Palma at the Zurbarán exhibition in the Louvre and the film series of the “Spain in the Louvre” programme
At the Zurbarán exhibition at the Louvre I made the acquaintance of Rossy de Palma. Everyone who has seen Almodóvar's films of the eighties and nineties knows her, from "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" to "Kika". Madame Rosa Elena was invited
How the Mausoleum and Lenin's body are recorded in accounting
The Mausoleum is carried as a fixed asset, just as the sarcophagus, the equipment, the clothing and the reagents are carried as fixed assets; the latter, strictly speaking, are materials. And Lenin himself, who takes no part in the production cycle and is not subject to depreciation, presumably sits in
Leonid Andreyev on the cross worn on the neck and the cross borne on the back
- And there's no cross round your neck - A cross? We bear our cross on our backs Leonid Andreyev
Swedish filmmakers locate the Paris spot where Daguerre photographed the Boulevard du Temple in 1838
In the spring of 1838, Louis Daguerre, the French painter and inventor of the daguerreotype, was testing a camera on which he had been working for almost a year. The daguerreotype was the first practical method of photography: the image appeared on a silvered copper plate. Daguerre photographed the view