Marie of Edinburgh, granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Alexander II, the last Queen of Romania

Marie of Edinburgh, granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Alexander II, the last Queen of Romania. In furs. She wrote ardent letters to George V and Nicholas II and was a genuine celebrity of her day. To this woman the Entente owed Romania's abandonment of neutrality and its entry into the First World War on the side of Russia and Britain. The people would adore her for her selfless devotion to the wounded in the war, while propaganda, after the fall of the monarchy, would accuse her of debauchery and of taking part in orgies.

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of 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

Marie of Edinburgh, granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Alexander II, the last Queen of Romania

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

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