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Third supermoon of the year on 17 October and traditional names of the Moon

A Moon such as tonight's was called by the American Indians the Moon of Dying Grass. The European tradition, for its part, has kept the name of the Hunter's Moon, since by its light game could be spotted with ease even at night. This is the

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As You Will Have Gathered from the Title of the Play, the Hero Stayed in Moscow for More Than Three Days

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The decision to mount construction cranes right on the towers of the skyscraper on Kudrinskaya Square looks very handsome indeed

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The State Seal of Catherine II

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Why Has the Curtain from the Moscow Art Theatre Been Hung in the Okolo Theatre?

Yury Pogrebnichko, together with the actors Alexey Chernyshev and Maxim Solopov, has staged Hamlet. Regulars of the Okolo Dома Stanislavskogo theatre will remember the Hamlet interludes, scenes and stray lines in The Cherry Orchard and, indeed, in many other things in the theatre's repertoire. Now Hamlet himself has

A young man with wavy dark hair and glasses, in a checked blazer and jeans, stands with arms crossed against a draped grey-green curtain.

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Portrait of a man before a grey-green velvet curtain

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The Russian Prize resumes after seven years, with 591 authors from 55 countries competing

After a seven-year break, the Russian Prize has resumed its work. It is a literary award for writers and poets who live abroad and write in Russian, and this year 591 authors from 55 countries are competing for it. The winners will be announced on 11 December. According to

A hand in the sleeve of a black leather jacket rests with fingers spread on dense green foliage.

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On the Portuguese poet and philosopher Fernando Pessoa

Beauty is the name of something that does not exist, which I give to things in exchange for the pleasure they give me. The Portuguese poet and philosopher Fernando Pessoa

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Good Morning

If at all possible, refrain from coffee, or at least from a storm in a teacup

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With the arrival of a new Kindle with a colour display, I cannot help wondering how badly it will glitch and freeze, if the plain black-and-white one starts misbehaving at roughly the three-hundredth book?

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The “Byzantine Symphony” exhibition has opened at the International Numismatic Club Museum

The exhibition "Byzantine Symphony. Treasures Earthly and Heavenly" has opened at the Museum of the International Numismatic Club in Bolshoy Afanasyevsky Lane. The display offers a reinterpretation of the legacy of Byzantine art in a contemporary space. Forms borrowed from medieval ecclesiastical and secular architecture create a special

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On 16 October 1793, Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, was beheaded on the Place de la Révolution

On 16 October 1793, Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, was beheaded on the Place de la Révolution. In essence, the French Republic has still not acknowledged its crimes against the royal family, and has never reviewed the unjust, shameful trials of the royal family of France

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