The Lord does not require you to stop eating, drinking and sleeping, or to give all your property to the poor

The Lord does not require you to stop eating, drinking and sleeping, or to give all your property to the poor. Do what you ought: if you are a wife, be a normal wife; if you are a father, be a normal father; if you are a son, be a normal son. If you work at a job, be a normal worker, not a very good one, just a normal one: do not steal, do not be rude to your superior, be conscientious, and you will already possess the greatest glory in heaven. By the standards of our times, against a background of complete spiritual impoverishment, that alone will be splendid; it will be a great sapphire, a precious jewel.

Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov

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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

The Lord does not require you to stop eating, drinking and sleeping, or to give all your property to the poor

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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

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

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