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Homo homini amicus, collega et frater est: Man Is to Man a Friend, Comrade and Brother. The historian of antiquity Mark Naumovich Botvinnik (1917-1994) recalls Stalin's post-war reforms as an attempt by an ageing leader to bring back the feeling of youth. Old people begin to
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Martin Parr (1952-2025)
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Eugène Delacroix's album and notes from his journey to Morocco in 1832. Delacroix brought back from Morocco 800 sheets of sketches and seven notebooks making up the diary of his travels, of which only four have survived: three are kept in the Louvre, and one in the Musée
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The Theatrical Performance of the Bear Games "The Cuckoo and the Cock" in 1936. The bear games are an ancient ritual of the Mansi and Khanty peoples, devoted to the cult of the bear, a sacred animal regarded as the brother and son of the supreme deity. In
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I almost forgot to share pictures from the new open storage display at the Garage Museum. Little by little we are learning what exactly one of the finest collections of contemporary art in the country looks like. There is much that one will not see in the New Tretyakov, for
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I knew only poor people, that is, people whose death interests no one. Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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On 11 April 1908, Good Friday, the most famous Moscow flood began, inundating a quarter of the city, an area of 16 square kilometres. A sharp thaw after the snowiest winter in 18 years filled the Moskva River and its tributaries, and in just twenty-four hours the water level
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At the end of November, a serious accident occurred in the library of the Louvre's Department of Egyptian Antiquities: at about 21:00 on 27 November, old pipes in the suspended ceiling burst. Dirty water flooded the rooms, damaging some 400 rare books, including their antique bindings. The
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Irish teacher Enoch Burke goes to prison for being a practising Christian and refusing to use the preferred pronouns and new name of a transgender pupil. He has been sentenced, for refusing to renounce his faith, his common sense and his clear conscience, to indefinite confinement until he complies with
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In short, nothing new. A piece on Russo-German relations, a sort of Telegram-channel analytics of 1872. They keep mulling over the future after the death of Alexander II, although he has another nine years allotted to him, and, as usual, they threaten to cut our dear little Russia