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One of the Most Spectacular Sights in the History of World Aviation: the Agitprop Aeroplane of the Magazine Krokodil, an ANT-9 from the Experimental Series. Yes, exactly so: in the 1930s Soviet magazines had aeroplanes of their own. An entire air fleet. The first to think of raising money
Cinema · Moscow · Observations · Society · Nature · Humour
Dear Crocodile, we need you very much. We have a little river. Next to it there is a big chemical factory. It is spoiling the river, and soon there will be no river, only one big inkwell. We are writing to you because you are held in great esteem. Come
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A caravan of Soviet tourists makes its way to the pyramids. Cairo, 1958
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Read in a newspaper 19 years old how a British history teacher, Adrian Targett, learned that he shares mitochondrial DNA with Cheddar Man, found in Gough's Cave in 1903 and some 10,000 years old. What is more, Targett and his family had lived all their lives literally
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Something strange at the Institute of Art History. No one will own up to whose brushes these are
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That is to say, the page from issue 7 of the magazine "USSR in Construction" for 1940 is a photomontage. Mayakovsky, in overcoat and hat, holding a gigantic Soviet foreign passport, was superimposed on this historic photograph by Irving Underhill, taken in 1921. The most amusing thing is
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Observations
At the Institute of Art History on Kozitsky Lane, Gosha Ostretsov's exhibition "Utopia" has opened, a sort of itinerary through the artist's universe, with works from the 1990s to the 2020s. In the absence of a curatorial text, all that remains is to watch
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A burial of 79 adult men with shackled wrists, discovered in 2016 in the Phaleron necropolis near Athens. The burial has been named the Esplanade. To this day there is no unambiguous answer to who they were and why they died together. The burial is dated to the turn of
Archive · Moscow · Education
Photo collage, 1934