Rumour flew: the kings of foreign lands Feared my audacity; Their haughty hosts Fled before the swords of the North

"Ruslan and Lyudmila", Pushkin.

This is what one of the oldest surviving knotted carpets in the world looks like: a Norwegian tapestry of the 12th century from Baldishol, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

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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

Rumour flew: the kings of foreign lands Feared my audacity; Their haughty hosts Fled before the swords of the North

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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