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Reza Pahlavi says he is preparing to return to Iran after two weeks of unrest

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi Announces Readiness to Return to Iran. Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and Empress Farah Pahlavi, the son and wife of the last Shah of Iran, have expressed a wish to return to their country throughout all 47 years of their forced exile. And now, after two weeks

Archive · Art · Museums · Paris

The Louvre bought the tiara of Saitaphernes in 1896, but it was made by an Odesa jeweller

In 1896 the Louvre bought the tiara of the Scythian king Saitaphernes for 220,000 francs. Eight of the foremost specialists in antiquity and the history of art pronounced it a masterpiece and assured the museum that it would become the pride of the Louvre. The Imperial Museum in Vienna

Museum display: a mannequin in a pink dress with wide beaded sleeves stands before a folding metal screen with leaf and sunburst patterns.

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Beaded dress on a mannequin before an Art Deco metal screen

Architecture · Art · Museums · Paris

Exhibition “1925–2025

The exhibition “1925–2025. One Hundred Years of Art Deco” at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris marks the centenary of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, from which the Art Deco style took its name and won worldwide recognition. The exhibition treats Art Deco

Aristocracy · Monarchies · Mores · Saint Petersburg

Catherine II's Court Carousel, founded in 1765, and the tournaments of 1766

The First Olympic Medal of the Russian Empire. In 1765 Catherine II instituted a special contest, held in a special arena with stands for spectators, in which the competitors rode on horseback and fired at mannequins. The contest was accompanied by a festivity with a display of costumes and jewels,

On an Art Nouveau postcard, the white-bearded Tsar Saltan in a patterned white robe bends toward a black cat on a red carpet.

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Tsar Saltan in the “Fairy-Tale Types” postcard series by the artist E. Sokolov

Tsar Saltan on a postcard from the series "Fairy-Tale Types" by the artist Ye. Sokolov

Art · Heritage · Society

Ten defendants tried over stolen Picasso works found in Peillon near Nice

Court Reopens 2017 Case in Which More Than 20 Stolen Works of Art, Including Seven by Picasso, Were Seized from a House in a Suburb of Nice. The police officers acted undercover, passing themselves off as a Swiss buyer and his assistant. The operation was prompted by information received from

Illustration of an inverted pyramid made of foods. Protein, dairy and healthy fats, and vegetables and fruits sit at the top; whole grains at the point. Title: The New Pyramid.

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Inverted food pyramid titled The New Pyramid, with illustrated foods

Books · Museums · Observations · Society

Digest of December posts on comet 3I/ATLAS, the Chagall exhibition and the Decembrists

Let us recall the good things! Returning to the interesting December publications on the channel 📌 On the unification of the Christian denominations 📌 Comet 3I/ATLAS: the finest interstellar light show in history 📌 Why we buy books 📌 Chronicles of the most famous flood in Moscow 📌 “Homo homini amicus, collega et frater

Faith · Books

He hath shewed strength with his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts

He hath shewed strength with his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. that

Painting in a wooden frame on a dark red wall: three women in headscarves and winter clothes walk through a snowy forest carrying round loaves.

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Mikhail Savitsky's painting “Khleby”, created in 1968

Loaves. Mikhail Savitsky, 1968

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