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Newspaper page with theatre reviews and a photo of actresses Nevskaya and Burtseva
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Bulgakov's play "The Cabal of Hypocrites", written in 1929 and devoted to the hardships of Molière's life under the yoke of Louis XIV, was permitted to be staged only after the vigorous intervention of Gorky, after a conversation between the author and St
Rehearsals at the Moscow Art Theatre dragged on, however, and the play reached the stage only in February 1936, to colossal success! But first in "Sovetskoye iskusstvo" and then, barely a week later, in "Pravda", there appeared devastating reviews. I give the text of the "
Science · Education · Society
A US student demanded her tuition money back after catching her professor using ChatGPT
Ella Stapleton, a student at Northeastern University, has demanded the return of $8,000 in tuition fees after discovering that her lecturer had used AI to produce teaching materials and prepare for classes, even though students are forbidden to use neural networks. The student noticed obvious signs of AI use
Faith · Monarchies · Observations · Rome
The 1963 coronation of Paul VI and the later popes' abandonment of the tiara
The other day we recalled the papal portable throne, the Sedia Gestatoria. It was the very one used at the coronations of popes. On 31 June 1963 took place the first coronation of a Pope since 970 held not inside St Peter's Basilica but in the open air,
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Three beekeepers in hooded masks with wicker hives before a village
NB! · Faith · People
Pope Benedict XV declared Joan of Arc a saint in 1920
Joan of Arc was canonised little more than a hundred years ago. On this day in 1920, Pope Benedict XV proclaimed Joan of Arc a saint
Art · People
Actaeon saw Artemis bathing, was turned into a stag and killed by his own hounds
“Actaeon”, 2012, a painting by the Scottish artist Paul Reid. While out hunting, Actaeon saw Artemis and her nymphs bathing and, instead of averting his gaze and turning away, he began to watch a spectacle not meant for his eyes. Artemis caught him peeping and turned him into a stag.
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Queen Elizabeth so resembles her younger sister, Princess Margaret, that a newspaper, under a joint photograph of the two on their way to the dying Mary of Teck, found it necessary to specify that the queen is in the middle
The East · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Back to Exhibition Reviews
Back to exhibition reviews. At the New Tretyakov Gallery, the exhibition "The Road to the East. Russian Artists in Central Asia" runs until the end of September. The display tells of the place of Eastern motifs in the work of Russian modernist artists. The interest of Russian culture
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Peter I in the 1670s
Art · Books · Science · Nature · Humour
I don't know why, but pineapples are trying to escape from the pages of one of the greatest botanical books of the eighteenth century
The hand-coloured botanical atlas Plantae Selectae by Christoph Jacob Trew, 1771. The engravings were made after drawings by the outstanding botanical draughtsman Georg Dionysius Ehret