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Andrei Voznesensky in one of the churches of the city of Murom in 1982
Photo by Georgy Rozov
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Learning Our Roman Numerals
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Kandinsky's House in 1980
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The cult of Maxim Gorky in the USSR is astonishing
Explicable, it seems, by his part in organising the pay of the Bolsheviks from 1902
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Kandinsky's apartment building on Dolgy Lane in Moscow and the creative laboratory in its tower
On Friday I breakfasted in Kandinsky's flat, in a room whose windows look out over Zubovskaya Square. Where did Rodchenko and Stepanova live in Moscow? E. L.: At first they made do in other people's flats, in tiny rooms. They lived in a house belonging to
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Japanese Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka accused of image manipulation in ten papers over the past twenty years
Japanese Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka stands accused of image manipulation in ten papers over the past twenty years. Yamanaka received the Nobel Prize in 2012 for reprogramming mature cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, and heads the corresponding centre at Kyoto University, CiRA. We shall not go into the research
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Theft of Queen Nazli's diamond necklace from the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna
Two men bought tickets to the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, walked up to a display case and smashed the protective glass with a hammer. They pulled out a diamond necklace and vanished in an unknown direction. They made no attempt to hide their faces, so the surveillance cameras
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11 roubles 73 kopecks
11 roubles 73 kopecks. That is now the price of looking at a single leaf of an archival file in the Sverdlovsk Region online. Not downloading it, not printing it, merely seeing it on a screen. Many people are discussing the resolution issued by the regional government on 19 August:
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Egyptian blue proved more complex in composition and required precise control of heating
It turns out that the so-called "Egyptian blue", the first synthetic pigment in history, is far more intricately made than previously thought. The paint is not a homogeneous crystal: its blue crystals were fused with a glassy mass and several kinds of quartz particles, and so the
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In Vancouver, a passer-by called the police to rescue a man from a contemporary sculpture
Police and firefighters broke down the door of the Access Gallery to rescue a man whose legs stuck out from behind a counter and were visible through the window. But there was no one to save: the guardians of public order found a sculpture by the artist Alyssa Pierre, Untitled
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To be honest, I prefer the cast iron of the railings in red lead to the oily black, but alas, red lead is merely the preparation for painting them black
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Pedestrian bridge along Bolotnaya Embankment in Moscow completed in time for City Day
The bridge along Bolotnaya Embankment, whose construction we have followed since the spring, is at last ready. Remember, I wrote that they would probably want to open it for City Day? They made it just in time