Coming Up · New York · Pop Culture
Keanu Reeves makes his Broadway debut in Waiting for Godot. On 28 September, Jamie Lloyd's production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot will open at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway. Although Reeves first appeared on the stage as long ago as 1985, playing Mercutio in Romeo
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Aristocracy · Cinema · Monarchies · Observations
in 1847 Queen Victoria conferred the hereditary title of baronet on a representative of the British branch of the Rothschild family, Anthony Nathan de Rothschild. After the death of the childless Sir Anthony the title passed to his nephew, Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild, on whom in 1885 Queen Victoria bestowed the
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London · Monarchies · Society
King Charles III received Trump at Windsor Castle during his state visit to Britain. The presidential aircraft, moreover, landed literally in the garden of Windsor Castle, the oldest and largest continuously inhabited castle in the world. The presidential couple were welcomed by the Prince and Princess of Wales; Trump then
Observations · Society
What madness! British zealots have proposed removing the name of the greatest goalkeeper, Lev Yashin, from the award named after him and given to the season's best goalkeeper
Archive · Faith · Paris
Issue of Illustrated Russia (Illyustrirovannaya Rossiya) for 1 May 1926
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Archive · Books · Society · Saint Petersburg
Illustrations to the rare émigré publication “There! Pictures of the Soviet Paradise” of the early 1920s. The new life in Bolshevik Petrograd is depicted by the authors with scrawny cows in city courtyards, starving people in a canteen, unbuttoned sailors and their drunken girlfriends from the Cheka, and workers sleeping
Art · Monarchies · Moscow · Museums
The State Historical Museum has opened the exhibition "Nicholas I. The Ideal Autocrat," marking the 200th anniversary of the accession to the throne of one of the most contradictory monarchs of the Russian Empire. The exhibition presents more than 260 items, including Nicholas I's personal belongings,
Archaeology · Architecture · Museums · Palaeontology · Ethnography
An Ancient Egyptian Temple in the Middle of Siberia. What? Yes The Krasnoyarsk Museum of Local Lore is one of the oldest museums in Siberia and the Far East and one of the largest in Russia. Its building, designed in the Egyptian style, was the work of the distinguished Krasnoyarsk