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A Humorous Design for a Summer Theatre Hall for Gentlemen, Where One Might Sit Half-Undressed: The Heat of 1861
Drawing by Alfred Grévin (1827-1892) for the cover of issue 281 of the Petit Journal pour Rire. A simple design for a summer hall for gentlemen, submitted to the gentlemen among the theatre directors, or even to the gentlemen of the commission for the creation of a new opera
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
A couple of days ago I posted a reel about the sad, dilapidated state of the wonderful openwork cast-iron Demidov fence in front of the Pedagogical Library in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane, and literally today word came that restoration work has begun there…
A couple of days ago I posted a reel about the sad, dilapidated state of the wonderful openwork cast-iron Demidov fence in front of the Pedagogical Library in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane, and literally today word came that restoration work has begun on the spot. I do not yet know
Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
A missed concert with an elderly woman at the microphone and a ride on the metro this week
Missed the concert at which an elderly lady stood and shouted into a microphone. On the other hand, I have already been on the Tube this week
Archive · Society
The liberals play the most wretched part and, confining themselves to idle chatter, cannot, from their habitual cowardice, bring themselves to any serious step; the sole exception is a serious and respectable circle numbering no more than 10 to 15…
From the "Reports of Rachkovsky, Official for Special Assignments of the Ministry of the Interior", 16 to 28 October 1894.
Archaeology · Observations · Science
A discovery in a megalithic tomb 50 km north of Paris seeks to explain why such structures ceased to be built across Europe at roughly the same time
In brief, the cause was a major catastrophe in the Stone Age, around 3000 BC, after which the structure of the population changed entirely. The study, naturally enough, implies that the disappearance of the communities that built such burial complexes led to the disappearance of the monuments themselves. At the
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations
I enjoy watching the construction of the pedestrian bridge along Bolotnaya Embankment
I enjoy watching the construction of the pedestrian bridge along Bolotnaya Embankment. It will probably be open in time for City Day
NB! · Geography · Saint Petersburg
The "Cuckoo" local train, which ran from 1864 between Peterhof and Oranienbaum
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Man with a Log
Portrait of a Senior Inspector. Art group "Rossiya". I very much liked this painting at the new exhibition in the Voznesensky Centre. The wall label states that the portrait on display belongs to a cycle of three images of senior inspectors of the group "Inspection Medical Hermeneutics&
Archaeology · Monarchies · Museums · Heritage
This small leather ball was found during the restoration of Stirling Castle in Scotland in the late 1970s and is considered the oldest surviving football in the world
This small leather ball was found during the restoration of Stirling Castle in Scotland in the late 1970s and is considered the oldest surviving football in the world. It is almost 500 years old. The find is dated to the period between the 1540s and 1570s. The ball is stitched
Faith · Books
Foma Gordeyev Accuses the Merchant Yakov Mayakin in a Work by Maxim Gorky
You built no life: you have made a cesspit! You have bred filth and stuffiness by your deeds. Have you a conscience? Do you remember God? The five-kopeck piece is your god! And your conscience you have driven out... Bloodsuckers! You live on another's strength! How many
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