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Petersburg International Economic Forum and the meaning of Sankt in the name of the city
It is indeed odd that the event is called the "Petersburg International Economic Forum" rather than the "Saint Petersburg" one. Even in English it is St. Petersburg. "Saint", after all, is not even a prefix but part of the name, pointing to the city&
Cinema · Books · Pop Culture
J. K. Rowling writes that the scripts for the first two episodes of HBO's new Harry Potter series are "incredibly good"
Rowling is an executive producer of the project and is not involved in writing the scripts. Filming of the series will begin in summer 2025. Each season will be devoted to one book of the original series. Pictured: the new Severus Snape, Paapa Essiedu, a British actor whose parents came
Art · Monarchies · Museums · Heritage
Christie’s withdrew El Greco’s “Saint Sebastian” from sale after Romania’s export claim
Romania demands return of El Greco painting owned by Dmitry Rybolovlev. In February of this year the auction house Christie’s withdrew from sale El Greco’s “Saint Sebastian” after the Romanian authorities declared that the painting had been unlawfully taken out of the country. The canvas was acquired by
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The Italo-Swiss street artist Andrea Ravo Mattoni says that the aim of his work is to link classical painting with the urban space, to join past and present and, closer to the point, to bring art hidden away in halls and…
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Why does the Lord not intervene, and allow this to come to pass?
Art · Moscow · Museums · Humour
On Gogolevsky Boulevard, Napoleon Plays Chess with His Uncle, Cardinal Mozef Fesch
On Gogolevsky Boulevard, Napoleon plays chess with his uncle, Cardinal Mozef Fesch. Bonaparte is losing. In fact, though, Jean-Georges Vibert's painting "Check!" is kept at the Haggin Museum in California
The East · Science · Society · People
Alexander Chizhevsky linked wars and revolutions to solar activity
US Intervention in the Middle East Mapped onto the 11-Year Solar Cycle of Sunspot Activity. The theory linking warfare and revolutionary outbreaks on earth with the activity of the sun was first advanced by the Russian Soviet scientist Alexander Leonidovich Chizhevsky (1897-1964), a biophysicist and the founder of
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Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), David Hockney, 1972
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Studio shoot: model in a black top and white skirt against a red backdrop
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The Circus Mood of Ulyana Sergeyenko's New Resort Collection: I Demand a Continuation of the Poodle's Story
Archive · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
The Evacuation of Museum Collections from the Western Regions of the USSR Began in the First Days of the Great Patriotic War
The evacuation of museum collections from the western regions of the USSR began in the first days of the Great Patriotic War. The rapidity of the advance and the appalling scenes of destruction visited by the Germans upon monuments of history and culture left no other choice. The museums had