Architecture · Observations · Society · Paris

Outgoing mayor's narcissism and elite greed as causes of a distorted capital cityscape

The Triangular Tower in Paris: Expectation and Reality. Though both are equally ill-suited to the balance of the capital's panorama and to the elegance of the silhouette of the most beautiful city in the world. Most curious of all, the chief reasons for the existence of this

NB! · Observations · Mores

What Is Really Meant When They Say "They Were Made for Each Other"

Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums

In the Where to Go column: a new selection of exhibitions in Moscow:

📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “The Rules of the Game: How Sport Shaped Culture” at the New Manege, until 4 December 📌 Closing soon: Mikhail Krunov’s exhibition “The Supracultural Absolute, or a Sensory Investigation of Time” at the a—s—t—r—a gallery, until 5 October 📌 The exhibition “From Dawn

Art · Science · Paris

Rubens painting found in a Paris mansion sold for 2.3 million euros

It is not every day that experts discover a new masterpiece of the seventeenth century. A painting created by Rubens around 1614–1615 has been found among the belongings of the late owner of a Parisian town house. In 400 years the picture has survived in excellent condition. After X-

NB! · Mores

The year was 1535, and a peasant from Lyon maintained that he was not at all to blame

Archive · Society · Saint Petersburg

Yegor Larichkin, accused in the case of the murder of Mikhail Gertsenshtein, together with his guards at a window of the building where the court sessions were held

Yegor Larichkin, accused in the case of the murder of Mikhail Gertsenshtein, together with his guards at a window of the building where the court sessions were held. Terijoki, Grand Duchy of Finland, 1909. Now Zelenogorsk, a district of Saint Petersburg. The Russian Empire we have lost

Faith · Books

And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth

Revelation 5:6

NB! · Archive · Mores · Ethnography

A Scene in a Russian Village after the Manoeuvres, 1936

Books

A poem by Alexander Pereverzin about a mother who saw a bumblebee in the window

On the first Saturday of February Mother saw a bumblebee in the window and said, standing in the doorway: Pasha or Sasha, we'll name him. Look, in the middle of the whiteness a bumblebee is flying? That is a good sign. If we don't come back

Archive · Cinema · Books · Monarchies · Society

So autumn has passed, as though it had never been. A digest of the most interesting posts of November for cosy reading:

📌 For the youngest alchemists of the channel: three magical alphabets 📌 In the Parnassian Mockingbird rubric: a review of Guillermo del Toro's new “Frankenstein” 📌 I tell the story of the recovered jewels of the Habsburg dynasty 📌 In half a century California has built 22 prisons and 1 university; we

Almaty · Archive · The East · Geography · Nature

Disappearance of the Turan tiger in Central Asia and hopes for reintroducing a related species

A Hunting Party of the 5th Turkestan Line Battalion, Fifteen Other Ranks Strong, with Tigers Killed in the Environs of the River Amu Darya. The Caspian tiger, which ranged from the Caucasus to the north-west of China and had made its home across vast territories along the southern shore

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