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Court to review Prince Harry's visa case again over details in the memoir Spare
Will Trump deport Prince Harry? A good, interesting question. The case concerning Harold's visa and the reliability of his visa documents is to be reheard in court. The story began with the ill-starred and scantly talented memoir Spare, after reading which the right people noticed a discrepancy
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The Pipes of Pan, Pablo Picasso, 1923, Antibes, France
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Family tree of Bauman University: from the Foundling Home of 1763
NB! · Moscow · Education · Humour
The Magnificent Family Tree of Bauman University
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums
Yury Avvakumov created a model mausoleum of dominoes with Swarovski crystals in 2008
A mausoleum of black dominoes with Swarovski crystals. An homage to Shchusev. Yury Avvakumov, 2008. The domino, a byword for the chain reaction, for unstable, successive collapse, becomes the material of an object emblematic of both a political system and modern history. On the other hand, it is a tomb
Faith · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
A Very Unusual Three-Hypostasis Icon
A very unusual three-hypostasis icon. The New Testament Trinity, 1812. An icon from the collection of the State Museum of the History of Religion, at the exhibition "The Russian Incredible" at the Zotov Centre
NB! · Observations
And what did you expect on the road to the Berezina?
NB! · Observations
Nowadays, open tabs have taken the place of all this
NB! · Museums · Observations · Paris
Do you know what odd thing I've noticed?
Do you know what odd thing I've noticed? At the Louvre, the free museum map handed out for navigation is never to be had in Russian. It is probably available in twenty languages, but not in Russian, one of the eight most widely spoken languages in the world.
Books · Observations · Humour
The author does not understand the admiration for a work by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
What I have never been able to understand is the raptures over Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and over his dullest work at that. It is rather like turning "Ryaba the Hen" into some sort of symbol of the age
Art · Observations · Nature
Sculpture of an animal's head with closed eyes on a marble base
Nicolas Darrot, The Great Bear. A beautiful but very sad sculpture