No, this is not a Russian tsar, not a tsar of the land, such as the people imagined him, from whom they awaited justice; this is simply a Petersburg emperor, born of German parents, sent for from across the sea to inherit the throne.
From the newspaper Obshchee veche [The General Assembly], published by Ogarev and Kelsiyev. On Nicholas I, as you will have guessed. 1862
"Madonna with Cherubim" was long considered the work of Giovanni Bellini, until in 1885, during restoration, features characteristic of his chief rival, and incidentally his relative, Andrea Mantegna, came to light. What misled viewers was a softness uncharacteristic of Mantegna. Despite the established title, the Madonna and Child
The silliest thing about this renaming is its poor timing. For when the Pushkin Museum was offered, as a gift, the greatest collection of contemporary art of the second half of the twentieth century, the collection of Peter Ludwig, the very reason for the refusal was the condition that the
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The Comte de Guiche asked Vincent Voiture, a man renowned for his wit, whether it was true that he was married. Voiture gave no answer. But he came to the count after midnight, woke him and said: "I have come to tell you that I am married". De