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Steel engravings by Lewis after drawings by Perring, 1864
Old Spain and Pious Bride France. Steel engravings by Lewis after Perring. 1864
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An exhibition of the new cycle "Intervals" by Francisco Infante and Nonna Goryunova has opened at the Krokin Gallery
An exhibition of the new cycle "Intervals" by Francisco Infante and Nonna Goryunova has opened at the Krokin Gallery. This intimate show introduces a new series of artefacts and precedes the major opening of Infante-Arana's solo exhibition at the New Tretyakov Gallery
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Isabella Rossellini, photograph by Helmut Newton, 1992
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Anna Akhmatova, 1916
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Celestial Pablum, a painting by the Spanish-Mexican para-surrealist artist Remedios Varo (1908-1963), 1958
The title translates as Heavenly Porridge
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Writer, Wizard, Mall Santa, Rasputin Impersonator
Writer, wizard, mall Santa, Rasputin impersonator. Now that, I understand, is a solid CV. You're hired, Alan Moore
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Naming at Altitude
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A Sixteenth-Century Woollen Headdress, in Case You Are Cast as a Dog in a Theatrical Production
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Still Lynch or Already Odin?
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VICTIM OF THE NEW ORDER
Mathilde Kschessinska: My intimate relations with the old government came easily to me: it consisted of just one man. But what am I to do now, when the new government, the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, consists of 2,000 people? Caricature by Nikolai Remizov (Re-Mi)
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Almost 150 protected areas in Moscow change status from OOPT to OOZT
At the end of last December, the Moscow government, by a decree of its own, converted the city's specially protected natural areas of regional significance (SPNAs) into specially protected green areas (SPGAs) According to the document, almost 150 parks, nature reserves, natural monuments and other protected territories are