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A child clears snow from his father's car during a heavy snowfall
Snow on Leninsky Prospekt in 1960. A child clears snow from his father's car
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A Museum of the Writer's Manuscripts to Open for Leo Tolstoy's Bicentenary
At present the Manuscripts Department of the Tolstoy Museum holds some 300,000 items, more than half of them sheets bearing the classic's autographs. The idea of a museum of Lev Nikolayevich's manuscripts was first voiced by Fekla Tolstaya as long ago as 2018. The writer&
NB! · Archive · Moscow · Humour
Soviet Defence Minister Dmitry Ustinov and Leonid Brezhnev Revel in the Snow on the Lenin Mausoleum Tribune in 1980
Archaeology · Faith · Science · People
The Theory of Alexander the Great's Body in Venice and the Fate of His Tomb in Alexandria
There is a theory that the body of Alexander the Great lies in Venice, passing as the relics of Saint Mark. The legend arises from the fact that in the 9th century the Venetians removed the relics of the Evangelist Mark from Alexandria and placed them in St Mark'
Cinema · Observations · Humour
Well, Happy New Year, Officially This Time!
Well, Happy New Year, officially this time! And enough of lounging about. Neither I nor Vittorio Gassman, in the role of the despotic Captain Ahab in “Moby Dick”, will tolerate any further holidays in the near future.
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A set of rules on what may and may not be photographed in the USSR, issued to David Bowie and Geoff MacCormack during their Trans-Siberian journey across Russia in 1973
Moreover, for foreigners in the USSR the ban on photographing military, scientific, industrial, railway, power and transport installations applied equally to sketching them
The East · Art · People
Work by the Indian poet and artist Rabindranath Tagore sets a new auction record: From Across the Dark, executed in ink, poster paint and wax crayons, was sold at an online auction for $1.2 million, which is more than…
File on Telegram Although interest in Indian modernism is growing, and Tagore's works long ago won international recognition, it is unlikely that his pictures will appear at auctions outside India: as early as 1976 they were declared a national treasure and banned from export. Incidentally, the Nobel laureate
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Elderly bearded man in a light robe standing beside a framed drawing
Faith · Monarchies · Rome
Papal ferulas from Paul VI to Leo XIV and the new ferula with the motto In illo uno unum
Last week, at the closing of the Holy Door of Saint Peter's Basilica, Pope Leo XIV celebrated the liturgy with a new papal ferula. The silver ferula with a crucifix was first used by Saint Paul VI in 1965, on the occasion of the closing of the Second
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I consider the theme of snow in the work of Yury Pimenov exhausted
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South Africa's culture minister rejects national project for the 2026 Venice Biennale
This month, the countries taking part in the 2026 Venice Art Biennale must present their projects. Shortly before the final list of pavilions is published, South Africa has run into difficulties of a domestic (and possibly also foreign) nature over the approval of its national project. The selection committee, appointed
Art · New York · Nature
Dogs Running in the Snow, New York
A photograph by the Hungarian photographer André Kertész, 1971