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People queue for tickets although the ticket terminals are free
Comrades, why are you crowding into a queue when the ticket terminals are perfectly free? A strange habit, all the same
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I cannot describe the feeling with which the museum attendant learned that the figure in Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe's photograph is a man in disguise
I cannot describe the feeling with which the museum attendant learned that the figure in Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe's photograph is a man in disguise. Thank you, Lord, that naivety still lives among people, and a truly holy simplicity
NB! · Faith · The East · Observations · Ethnography · Humour
Astonished by the qualities of the Korean mythical creature Yeongno, which devours corrupt aristocrats and state officials, and which, if it consumes a hundred such wealthy men in the course of its life, is admitted to paradise
Astonished by the qualities of the Korean mythical creature Yeongno, which devours corrupt aristocrats and state officials, and which, if it consumes a hundred such wealthy men in the course of its life, is admitted to paradise. Fairy tales one longs to believe in
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L. P. Orlova, back at the Mossovet Theatre after yet another successful plastic surgery operation
L. P. Orlova, back at the Mossovet Theatre after yet another successful plastic surgery operation, discovers in the programme for the production of "The Strange Mrs Savage" the name of V. P. Maretskaya set against her own role of Mrs Savage, 15 February 1973. Dissatisfied with V. P.
Archive · Art · Monarchies · Saint Petersburg
The Imperial Family of the Russian Imperial House in Alexander Eikhov's photograph of 1867, showing Alexander II with his wife, children, brothers and nephews, one of the first examples of photomontage in the history of photography
The Imperial Family of the Russian Imperial House in Alexander Eikhov's photograph of 1867, showing Alexander II with his wife, children, brothers and nephews, is one of the first examples of photomontage in the history of photography. All the figures were photographed separately. Moreover, as Alexey Loginov, curator
NB! · Observations · Society
God Grant Good Health to Oleg Imameev, Mayor of the Amur Capital
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A short remark on the social importance of observing a dress code
“He came in a suit and did not look like a madman”. a brief but pithy remark on the social importance of observing the dress code
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Vysotsky's paternal grandparents and Lev Levin, the doctor executed in 1938
The paternal grandparents of Vladimir Vysotsky were called Wolf Shliomovich Vysotsky and Dora Ovseyevna Bronstein. Wolf was a schoolfellow of Mikhoels and Babel. Dora Ovseyevna's stepfather, Lev Levin, physician to members of the government and to Maxim Gorky, was shot in 1938 on a charge of participating in
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Louis XVI's Fear of Cats and Two Incidents of Killing Them
Louis XVI could not abide cats and was mortally afraid of them. Once, during a brilliant reception at Versailles, a cat somehow slipped into the hall; Louis, beside himself, leapt from his seat, seized a heavy candelabrum and killed the animal on the spot. On another occasion, hammer in hand,
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Enough Hanging from the Ceiling
Enough hanging from the ceiling. Back to the reality of the new working week!
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Lilya Brik and Elsa Triolet with their mother, Elena Kagan, in 1918
The last known family photograph, taken before Elsa left Russia with her mother in the summer of 1918. In the photograph: Lev Grinkrug, Elsa, her friend Tamara Beglyarova, Elena Yulyevna Kagan and Lilya Brik
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