The Cossacks of the Ataman Regiment. The painting "The Return to Camp at Krasnoye Selo of the Cossacks of the Life-Guards Ataman Regiment" was painted by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille in 1889 on commission from the Tsarevich Nicholas. It adorns the corner drawing room of the Alexander Palace in Pushkin. A reduced copy of the painting is on display in the Musée de l'Armée in Paris
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
