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Chess for four players was known as early as the Middle Ages, but the board in this miniature differs from the boards of modern German four-handed chess, where three rows of squares are added on each side, and from historical Russian four-handed chess wit
Modern rules provide for a game between two teams: the players of one team sit opposite each other and move clockwise, beginning with White.
Aristocracy · Monarchies · Mores · People
Besides the headlines with their droll puns, heirbnb and scarebnb, there is the recent piece in The Sun about the purchase of new property in Portugal by Prince Harry and his in every respect charming American wife, Markle, presumably to let out…
The money comes, remarkably enough, as an inheritance from his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, née Bowes-Lyon. Here is how it came about. The Queen Mother, matriarch of the British monarchy, died in 2002, a very short time before her 102nd birthday. So why was her legacy
Archive · Monarchies · Mores
Alexander III with his children watering trees in the garden
Late 1880s.
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L. Masterkova, abstract composition with mesh, 1967
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Society
Q-ART Gallery opens “Green Light for the Underground” for the 50th anniversary of the Izmailovo exhibition
The second part of the exhibition project "Belyayevo — Izmaylovo. Nonconformism from the Q-ART Collection", entitled "Green Light for the Underground", has opened at Q-ART Gallery. It is dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the exhibition of nonconformist artists in Izmaylovo Park, held two weeks
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Don't Worry, They Are Not Enjoying Themselves, They Are Only Pretending
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Johann Tischbein's Portrait of Goethe and the Unusual Depiction of the Legs
Johann Tischbein is known largely for having painted portraits of his friend Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Before us is one of the most famous portraits of Goethe, by Tischbein himself. The thinker, in the pose of an ancient Roman, has settled on a ruined Egyptian obelisk beneath an ivory-coloured plaid,
NB! · Architecture · Observations · Heritage
Sometimes I think that if this house is ever scrubbed clean and repainted, it will no longer be the same, and we shall not be able to love each other as before
Sometimes I think that if this house is ever scrubbed clean and repainted, it will no longer be the same, and we shall not be able to love each other as before. Please, do not show it to the municipal services for at least 15 years 🥲💔
NB! · Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies
The daughters of Emperor Nicholas II out walking with Anna Vyrubova, the closest and most devoted friend of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
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This photograph could grace the cover of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's «The Shadow of the Wind»
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