On the wall of Napoleon III's study hangs the new plan of Paris, enlarged to 20 arrondissements and rebuilt at the emperor's behest by Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann (the surname derives from the German Hausmann) in 1860

On the wall of Napoleon III's study hangs the new plan of Paris, enlarged to 20 arrondissements and rebuilt at the emperor's behest by Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann (the surname derives from the German Hausmann) in 1860. The Paris we see today came into being thanks to these two men

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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

On the wall of Napoleon III's study hangs the new plan of Paris, enlarged to 20 arrondissements and rebuilt at the emperor's behest by Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann (the surname derives from the German Hausmann) in 1860

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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