When you have smeared the sun cream unevenly over your back and remain for ever after with a sunburnt handprint on the snow-white marble of your body.
The Venus of Vienne, or Bathing Aphrodite, of the 1st-2nd centuries AD, from the collection of the Louvre, with the missing Cupid, who in the Hermitage's version, the Venus of Lely, hands mamma, restoring her bodily modesty during the bath, a little towel
Alexander I, King of Poland, Tsar and Autocrat of All the Russias Just a reminder of Russia's borders before 1918: in 1815 the greater part of the Duchy of Warsaw became part of the Russian Empire as the Kingdom of Poland, or the Vistula Land, until everything fell
A photograph of 1930 showing the deportation of a kulak and his family The number of victims of dekulakisation has still not been established and can hardly be stated unambiguously, since the figure includes both those directly repressed (stripped of their property, evicted, exiled, arrested) and, on occasion, the victims
From a guidebook to Syria. Photographs by Félix Bonfils (1831-1885)
On the evening of 1 October the Miller mansion at 3 St Isaac's Square in Saint Petersburg burned down. A house of the second half of the eighteenth century, rebuilt in 1879-1880 in eclectic forms by the architect Ferdinand Miller, it was granted the status of a