As Virginia Woolf wrote in "The Waves", "Life is the mainspring of a watch

As Virginia Woolf wrote in "The Waves", “Life is the mainspring of a watch. How swiftly life runs from January to December! We are borne along by a stream of things, so familiar now that they cast no shadows. We float, we float…”. I hope that one more month in this channel with me has cast some shadows and impressions in your memory, but to revisit a few of the brightest moments, I propose that we run once more through some of the Parnassian Mockingbird’s publications from August, which has slipped away from us like a raindrop down a windscreen. Rubric: digest

📌 The rock paintings of Shulgan-Tash have been recognised as a World Heritage site

📌 Archaeologists have discovered elaborate tattoos on a mummy of the Pazyryk culture

📌 How the designer Alessandro Michele furnished his home in a fifteenth-century palazzo in Rome

📌 European libraries are recording the disappearance of rare antiquarian editions

📌 A new form cut from old patterns. We assess the GOST standard for school uniform 25/26

📌 Bishop Tikhon against the passion for wine. The methods of combating alcoholism in an eighteenth-century seminary

📌 On the lodge of the Order of the Pug, which in eighteenth-century Europe covered dark Masonic dealings with the sweet face of a pug

📌 Friends who were never destined to meet. The monument to President Lincoln and Emperor Alexander II

📌 The story of the Russian opera prima donna Nadezhda Bulycheva, who spoke out against slavery in Brazil

📌 The Vatican police removed a blogger for improper behaviour in the cathedral. We get to grips with main character syndrome

📌 Lessons in art history. Giorgione’s Tempest is the first landscape in the history of painting

📌 The Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Virgin in the city of Ani is to be turned into a mosque after restoration

📌 Leo Tolstoy and his love of cycling

📌 And of course the words of the unforgettable maestro Scrooge McDuck on great books