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The famous horse celebrated for being able to read and count is believed to have perished during the First World War
In its day, the mental powers of this horse astonished the European public. Investigators, however, were able to establish that the horse could neither count nor read after all, but could pick up even the slightest changes in a person's facial expression, and it was this that helped
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Spare Your Nerves, It Is Only Tuesday
Art · Monarchies · Moscow · Observations · Society
New monument to the Governor-General of Moscow, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov, and his wife, Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna, unveiled in Klimentovsky Lane, beside Tretyakovskaya metro station
The monument depicts the grand ducal couple on the day of their wedding in 1884. Elizaveta Feodorovna wears a bridal gown with a flowing train. Sergei Alexandrovich is dressed in the uniform of the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment, which he commanded from 1887 to 1891. Sergei Romanov was killed in
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Mikhail Belomlinsky drew a house for Kostyor magazine where Valya and Baba Yaga live
Valya and Baba Yaga, or, as the estate agents say, "Wonderful, considerate neighbours!" Illustration for the magazine Kostyor. Mikhail Samuilovich Belomlinsky
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The King and Queen of Spain in Valencia, Struck by an Unprecedented and, as some write, Man-Made Flood
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Vladimir Nabokov Hunting Butterflies
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No Bremen residence permit, no leave!
Illustration from the magazine Krokodil, Viktor Alexandrovich Chizhikov
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Mores · Humour
Grocery store in the basement level of the high-rise on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment
On the whole, Pyaterochka fits rather well into the interiors of a palace of late socialism. The grocery shop on the lower ground floor of the high-rise on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment
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A French Soldier Lights a Cigarette for a Macedonian Child during the First World War
A German soldier offers a cigarette to a Serbian child. What touching, unfeigned solicitude for childhood.
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Man Ray, Éluard, Dalí, Breton and Crevel change places in a photograph of the Surrealists
The Surrealists have changed seats. Man Ray has moved to Paul Éluard's place, Paul Éluard to Dalí's, Dalí to André Breton's, André Breton to René Crevel's, and René Crevel to Man Ray's. Tristan Tzara, Jean Arp, Yves Tanguy and Max
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Surrealists and the Dadaists Who Joined Them, from Tzara to Man Ray
Surrealists in Paris in 1933: Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, André Breton, Jean Arp, Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, René Crevel and Man Ray. Tristan Tzara was a poet and a founder of Dadaism. In early 1930, together with Francis Ponge and Paul Nougé, he supported the first issue of