Digest of channel posts from the first two weeks of February on Paris, culture and history

A guide to the posts published on the channel in the first two weeks of February. Besides a great many posts about Paris, there was cultural news, surveys of social problems and astonishing stories from the past.

📌 The story of Saint Plautilla, who handed her veil to the Apostle Paul before his execution and received it back from the other world, as captured in Giotto's triptych in the Vatican Pinacoteca

📌 Claude Perrault's Colonnade, a masterpiece of French classicism adorning the eastern façade of the Louvre, which has inspired many architects

📌 The introduction of a separate ticket for the "Mona Lisa" at the Louvre is a measure that does not resolve the museum's key problems: overcrowding, a lack of infrastructure and poor service for visitors

📌 The pop/off/art gallery marks its 20th anniversary with a large-scale exhibition at Winzavod, showing works by Erik Bulatov, Vladimir Potapov and other well-known artists, many of them never exhibited before.

📌 A mausoleum of black dominoes, studded with Swarovski crystals: an ironic homage to Shchusev, presented at the exhibition "The Russian Unbelievable" at Zotov.

📌 Russia plans to establish a National prize for managers in the sphere of culture

📌 Leadership in agribusiness and art: the story of the Resnick family, who own vast water and land resources in California, and its comparison with the plot of Roman Polanski's film "Chinatown"

📌 A story about a nineteenth-century student who abandoned university because of Latin. How many talented specialists has Russia lost owing to the impractical demands of its educational system?

📌 How museum artefacts inspire contemporary fashion. Astonishing parallels between past and present at the Louvre exhibition.

📌 France and the United Kingdom top the ranking of countries with the highest number of hate crimes against Christians