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Costume Design for the Spider in the Ballet "Mukha-Tsokotukha" (The Fly Who Went A-Shopping), 1980

Tatyana Georgievna Bruni (1902-2001), granddaughter of the architect and painter Yuly Fyodorovich Bruni, great-granddaughter of the artist Fyodor Antonovich Bruni

Screenshot of a message referring to chapter 19 of the Acts of the Apostles, with reaction counters below it.

NB! · Observations

Today's assignment on chapter 19 of the Acts of the Apostles

Good morning! Today's assignment. I shall be round to check.

NB! · Archive · Observations · Pop Culture

The Russian variety singer Anastasia Vyaltseva in a dress with birds, and an Alexander McQueen jacket with the same swallows, from the 1995 collection

White stucco medallion: a bearded head at the centre flanked by two crowned profiles. A garland of flowers and fruit surrounds it, with two ribboned torches at the sides, on a yellow wall.

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Stucco medallion with a three-faced male head and torches on a yellow facade

Architecture · The East · Moscow · Education

Masonic Moscow

Masonic Moscow. A six-pointed star, blazing torches and a medallion with a three-faced figure in the bas-reliefs on the façade of the Kazakov building of Moscow University (photos 1, 2), rebuilt in 1817 under the direction of Domenico, or Dementy Ivanovich, Gilardi. Today the Kazakov building houses

NB! · Art · London · Monarchies · Observations

The New Monument to Elizabeth II and Prince Philip as Vivid Evidence of the Complete Decline of the Art of Sculpture

Books · Observations

If we all valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world

Tolkien. But for the time being, humanity persists in building a world that Smaug, Morgoth and Sauron would appreciate

NB! · The East · Society · People

On 12 February 1929, Leon Trotsky, carrying a passport in the name of Sedov, was deported from the port of Odessa to Constantinople on the steamship Ilyich (formerly Nicholas II), together with his wife and their son Lev Sedov, escorted by officers of the

NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums

An Ancient Greek Lyre of Tortoiseshell and Wood

Archive · Science · Society

After the Revolution, the steamship “Nicholas II”, built in 1895, was renamed “Ilyich

After the Revolution, the steamship “Nicholas II”, built in 1895, was renamed “Ilyich. In the course of her voyages the ship, laid down at a shipyard in the Scottish town of Dumbarton, sailed to the Far East, served as a floating industrial exhibition, represented Russian culture as an exhibition vessel

Art · Observations · Reportage

The mood at the fair is brisk, the young are pondering love, loneliness, existential questions, feeling nostalgic for the nineties, the noughties and, apparently, the 2010s, seeking new forms, expressing themselves in different media, using unusual techni

The mood at the fair is brisk, the young are pondering love, loneliness, existential questions, feeling nostalgic for the nineties, the noughties and, apparently, the 2010s, seeking new forms, expressing themselves in different media, using unusual techniques such as the metal lace of Artem Lyapin. Embroidery and other kinds of

A framed photo on a white wall shows a person in a paper cupcake costume with a pink cherry hood. Below, part of another work shows checked fabric and smoke.

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