A rally on Skobelev Square in Moscow, April 1917. Today the square can be recognised by the church of Saints Cosmas and Damian peeping out from behind the building. Yes, yes, this is how Tverskaya Square looked a hundred years ago. On the very spot where the monument to the universally beloved General Skobelev once stood, there is now a monument to Yury Dolgoruky
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
