"We shall see time change our misfortunes." "That time is far off, for a perverse world will seek the means to oppose, unceasingly, the happiness of our days."

Without hope, without illusions, and with prophetic accuracy, Anna Leopoldovna, condemned to confinement for the rest of her days, answers her imprisoned husband. She is the mother of the forgotten Russian Emperor Ivan VI, who was shut up in a dungeon at the age of one. From the tragedy "The Death of Ivan" (1765) by Léopold-Frédéric Fallot.

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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

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

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

"We shall see time change our misfortunes." "That time is far off, for a perverse world will seek the means to oppose, unceasingly, the happiness of our days."

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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

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