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We Have Van Gogh at Home
Van Gogh at home: “Lenin and Krupskaya”, Viktor Andreyevich Pozdnov, 1969
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Elegance is the right combination of distinction, naturalness and simplicity
Christian Dior
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We are forever passing through the thresholds of initiation
We are forever passing through the thresholds of initiation. Every accident, every incident, every joy and every suffering is an initiation. And reading a beautiful book, or beholding a great landscape, may also be an initiation The French writer Marguerite Yourcenar
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Robert Doisneau's Eiffel Tower, 1965
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Richly embroidered leather mittens, the work of Russian craftsmen of the nineteenth century
Museums · Observations · Society · Saint Petersburg
Author backs the Hermitage in dispute with visitors over commercial filming
Regarding the girls who slipped into the Hermitage for a commercial shoot, avoiding the official fee for this kind of use of museum spaces, the following must be understood. No one's private commercial interests should be placed on the opposite pan of the scales from good order in
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Pope Francis's First Public Appearance After Hospitalisation
Art · Books · Moscow
Mayakovsky’s poem “Good Attitude to Horses” about a horse that fell in the street
Hooves were beating. As though they sang: "Mush- room. Plun- der. Tomb. Rude." Drunk with the wind, shod with ice, the street was sliding. A horse on her croup crashed down, and at once one idler after another idler, who had come to flap their trousers about Kuznetsky,
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Tolstoy's love of horses, from Pirogovo to Delir in Yasnaya Polyana
Tolstoy was madly fond of horses. At the age of ten he left his first account of the impression made on him by an acquaintance with horses at the stud farm in Pirogovo. This childish rapture he later gave to Nikolenka Irtenyev in "Childhood": I was in a
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The Abdication of Nicholas II as Reported in the British Press: AMAZING NEWS
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An Anti-Bolshevik Poster of the 1920s
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