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Stone mascaron with a moustache from an 18th-century Moscow house at the Museum of Moscow
A moustached mascaron from an eighteenth-century Moscow house. Museum of Moscow
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Shell-shaped bowls against red marble with a joking caption about the Hermitage
Yes, of course. Hold your breath
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Fans Responded with the Roman Salute
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The Rok film studio has unveiled a project for a new film, “Family Happiness”, after Leo Tolstoy’s novel of the same name, to be realised by the young director Stasya Tolstaya (Venkova), wife of…
The Rok film studio has unveiled a project for a new film, “Family Happiness”, after Leo Tolstoy’s novel of the same name, to be realised by the young director Stasya Tolstaya (Venkova), wife of a great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-
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Joffrey Baratheon and Theon Greyjoy of "Game of Thrones" Find Themselves on the Same Set Once More
Joffrey Baratheon and Theon Greyjoy, heroes of "Game of Thrones", find themselves on the same set once more. They can be seen in the series "Safe Harbour", about hackers who work with the Irish mafia. Very well, I know one ought not to transfer a character&
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The Pope calls for the debts of poor countries to be forgiven, paradoxically supposing that this is a way of helping their development
The Pope calls for the debts of poor countries to be forgiven, paradoxically supposing that this is a way of helping their development. But economics, as it happens, is arranged a little differently
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Once it was resonant, like a bird, Like a spring it flowed and rang out, As though it wished to pour itself out, all radiance, Along the steel wire
And then, like a distant sobbing, Like a farewell to the soul's joy, It began to sound, full of repentance, And vanished in some unknown backwoods. It perished in some wild field, Buried under a merciless blizzard... And my soul cries out in pain, And my black telephone
Art · Books · Moscow · Museums
The Multimedia Art Museum continues to honour the legacy of our distinguished contemporary Erik Bulatov, this time with the opening of the exhibition "A Marvellous Journey" by Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vasiliev, spanning thirty years of joint work…
Here is how the curators describe the exhibition: For the representatives of unofficial Soviet art, illustrations for children's books were not only a means of earning a living but also a space of creative freedom. Art for children was censored more gently, and for the Conceptualist artists the
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The poet Sergey Mikhalkov with his son Nikita in 1952
Photo by Dmitry Baltermants
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Meditation, Thomas Bossard
NB! · Archive · Observations · Paris
Cover of "La Vie parisienne", 1923
Cover of La Vie parisienne, 1923. I can say that over a hundred years the content of Parisian life has changed considerably
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