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Russian translation of Michael Finkel’s “The Museum Thief” on Stefan Breitwieser published

A Russian translation of journalist Michael Finkel's book "The Art Thief" has been published. Two years ago it became a bestseller in the United States. Its hero is Stéphane Breitwieser, a young Frenchman with neither education nor profession, who between 1995 and 2001 stole more than

Archive · Moscow · Society

The 1996 Address of the President of Russia Was Called "The Russia for Which We Are Responsible"

It contained the following words: "Tsarist Russia, burdened with the weight of its own historical problems, was unable...", while "the communist project failed the test".

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Cinema · Observations · Science · Education

Melde's experiment with a violin bow and a vessel of water shows how waves propagate under the influence of sound vibration

Did you cover this at school? Or at the very least, do you remember Sandra Bullock's talent-show number in the film "Miss Congeniality"?

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Napoleon in the Kremlin

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Boethius beholds in a magic mirror how Lady Philosophy consoles and heals him, sick and feeble as he is, which I wish for you too

Art · Museums · Humour

Giorgione's Judith and Vladimir Petrovich Kozin's Judith

Photograph from the series "Domestic History of ISKVA. Photo Performance", 1999 In a kitchen, beside the stove, a man lies on his back; above him stands a woman, her left foot planted on the man's head. In her left hand is a white stick. Museum "

Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg

Another Hermitage Giorgione, likewise acquired in 1772 from the collection of Baron Crozat de Thiers in Paris: a widely known male portrait, regarded until the mid-nineteenth century as a work by Giorgione but subsequently reattributed more than once

Another Hermitage Giorgione, likewise acquired in 1772 from the collection of Baron Crozat de Thiers in Paris: a widely known male portrait, regarded until the mid-nineteenth century as a work by Giorgione but subsequently reattributed more than once. The picture has been ascribed to Domenico Mancini and to Domenico

Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg

Madonna and Child in a Landscape and Judith in Room 217 of the Great Hermitage

Works by Giorgione that can be seen in the Hermitage:. 📌 Madonna and Child in a Landscape, circa 1503. Acquired in 1817 from the Creighton collection in Saint Petersburg. On display in Room 217 of the Large Hermitage. One of the painter's early works 📌 Judith, 1504. Acquired in 1772

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You ask why I don't care for Le Corbusier?

You ask why I don't care for Le Corbusier? Because he led us from the first to the second

Half-length painted portrait of a young man with dark wavy hair against a dark background, glancing over his shoulder. He wears green armor with a metal rim and a red cloak.

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Painted portrait of a young man with long hair wearing armor

Art · Books · Museums · People · Saint Petersburg

Vasari's biography of Giorgione, his date of death and the disputed self-portraits

Labouring for the glory of himself and his fatherland, and forever moving in society to divert his many friends with music, he fell in love with a certain lady, and the two of them took very great delight in their love. But it so happened that in 1511 she caught

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