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Boris Rogachevsky's 1986 poster showing the Earth under a drawn roof
There Is No Other Home! Poster by Boris Rogachevsky, 1986
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Giacomo Manzù stele for the Lenin centenary installed on Capri in 1970
Monument to Lenin on Capri. The five-metre marble stele by the Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzù was erected in 1970 in the Gardens of Augustus, to mark the centenary of Lenin's birth, at the commission of the Soviet embassy in Italy. The inscription on the stele reads: “A
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Vladimir Konashevich's Illustrations for Chukovsky's Fairy Tales
Geography · Observations
The Longest Place Name in Russia Without Spaces or Hyphens: Verkhnenovokutlumbetyevo (23 Letters)
The longest place name in Russia without spaces or hyphens is Verkhnenovokutlumbetyevo (23 letters). It is a village in the Matveyevsky District of Orenburg Oblast. As for settlements whose names are written with a hyphen, the longest name in Russia belongs to the village of Kremenchug-Konstantinovskoye in the Kabardino-
Faith · Books · Society
The stranger who is among you shall mount above you higher and higher, and you shall go down lower and lower; he shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail
Deuteronomy 28:43-44
Moscow · Museums · Pop Culture
Military chess, invented in the USSR in 1939, whose pieces include the regiment, platoon, army, division, company, battery, sapper, fortress, aviation and landmine
Military chess, invented in the USSR in 1939, whose pieces include the regiment, platoon, army, division, company, battery, sapper, fortress, aviation and landmine. And the board is divided by a river. It can be seen in the Underground Museum of Zaryadye at the exhibition “The Chess Code”
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enchanté, enchanté, dear lady
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Adrien Brody makes his debut as a painter at an exhibition in New York
Paintings from Adrien Brody's debut exhibition in New York as proof that a man cannot be equally bad at two different things. And Brody the painter is even worse than Brody the actor
Architecture · The East · Heritage · New York · Society
Trump's order cutting foreign aid deprives World Monuments Fund of seven grants
Trump's order cutting foreign aid from the USA has struck heritage protection programmes. The US presidential administration plans to cut around $60 billion of foreign assistance, including the closure of almost half of overseas grants. One of the organisations affected is the New York-based World Monuments Fund:
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Russian Ministry of Culture Signs State Contract for Restoration Work on Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square
The Russian Ministry of Culture has signed a state contract for restoration work on Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square. The value of the contract is 19.6 million roubles. The deadline for completing the work under the state contract is 27 August 2026.
Aristocracy · Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums
The Museum of the Defence of Moscow holds a Group Portrait of the Descendants of A.S. Pushkin Who Took Part in the Great Patriotic War, 1957, by the artist Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Vladimir Pereyaslavets
The Museum of the Defence of Moscow holds a Group Portrait of the Descendants of A.S. Pushkin Who Took Part in the Great Patriotic War, 1957, by the artist Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Vladimir Pereyaslavets. The portrait does not gather all of Pushkin's descendants who served in the
Archive · Cinema · Pop Culture · Humour
When you feel like a happy walrus
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, 1962