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The Spiritual Testament, that is, the Will of Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscow, Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts. "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, behold, I, the sinful and unworthy servant of God, Dmitry Ivanovich, write this spiritual
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Marc Brazier-Jones, Three-Legged Winged Chair, bronze, 1990. I reckon one ought to take it
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Greek police are preparing to storm the Orthodox pilgrim monastery of Esphigmenou on Mount Athos. In the news reports the monastery is called nothing but schismatic, because for many years Esphigmenou has stood in opposition to the rest of the Holy Mountain, to the Patriarchate of Constantinople and to the
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For such crimes, the Council Code of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich prescribed the following:. "And should any miscreant, coming into the church of God during the holy liturgy, by whatever means prevent the divine liturgy from being performed: then, having seized him and established the truth of the matter, that
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Art gallery owners in some Paris neighbourhoods complain that, despite the appeals for a cultural contribution to the Olympics, access to their galleries has simply been blocked. And the question is no longer one of boosting sales in the tourist season, but of how the gallery staff themselves are to
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Works by Alexandra Exter, one of the key women artists of Russian Constructivism, at the exhibition "Friends. For the Anniversary of Varvara Stepanova", which opened yesterday in the Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
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“Dig for Victory: The Wise Eat More Potatoes”, Charles Spencelayh, 1942. A genre painting with a social purpose, urging the English in the hard years of war to change their consumer habits in favour of simple, readily available foodstuffs
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Mary Magdalene Did Not Recognise the Risen Christ and Took Him for the Gardener. The motif of the risen and unrecognised Christ recurs several times in the Gospel accounts, but it is in the guise of a gardener that the Saviour is at his most enigmatic. Mary did not recognise
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Recognised? This is "Rozanova Dancing". The artist Varvara Stepanova has drawn the artist Olga Rozanova. A little masterpiece from the exhibition "Friends. For the Anniversary of Varvara Stepanova" at the Pushkin Museum, Gallery of European and American Art