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Pair of Works from Bouts's Workshop from the Duchess of Berry's Collection Sold at Sotheby's for €360,000
The delightful "Virgin at Prayer" and "Christ in Sorrow" from the workshop of Albrecht Bouts, from the recent Old Masters sale at Sotheby's in France. This pair of Flemish Renaissance works from the Venetian collection of the Duchess of Berry sold for a little
Art · Books · Mores
Oh, how I long to go back, oh, how I long to burst into the little town, onto our street of three houses, where everything is plain and familiar, for just a day
Oh, how I long to go back, Oh, how I long to burst into the little town, Onto our street of three houses, Where everything is plain and familiar, for just a day. Where people walk in on you without asking, Where there is no envy and no spite, a
Monarchies · Observations · Society · Humour
Catherine borrowed 100,000 roubles from the merchant Felten for agitation among the Guards
Political technologies, tried and tested over the centuries:. ..managed to stir up the guards' indignation against Peter Fyodorovich and to rouse sympathy for Catherine; and so that there should be no doubt as to the latter's kindness towards the guards, the conspirators warmed the mood of the
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Nekrasov and his friends mock Dostoevsky's vanity in a poem of 1846
Knight of the Rueful Countenance, Dostoevsky, dear little puffball, on the nose of literature you glow like a fresh new pimple. Among Nekrasov's verses there is one entitled "Belinsky's Epistle to Dostoevsky", written in January 1846. It is sometimes described as "collective"
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George Orwell and the Dachshund
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Still Life with Game, Vegetables and Fruit of 1602 by Juan Sánchez Cotán, the founder of Spanish realism
Still Life with Game, Vegetables and Fruit of 1602 by Juan Sánchez Cotán, the founder of Spanish realism. Can you catch the pleasant whiff of Caravaggism?
NB! · Archive · The East
The Siamese Army with War Elephants in 1875
Observations · Education · Society
A bill awaited by educators would affect university lecturers and school teachers
Today the State Duma discussed Oleg Smolin's bill on reducing the paperwork burden on teaching staff. A very timely bill, long awaited by the teaching community, and one that concerns not only university lecturers but also schoolteachers, who are literally groaning under bureaucratic obligations and requirements. One would
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Catherine II ascribes her fortune and Peter III's misfortune to character and conduct
Catherine II compares herself with her innocently slain husband Peter III, as if to show that her happiness is built on the qualities of her character and her conduct. As, indeed, was the misfortune of Peter, the simpleton she deposed and whom her lover killed. Presumptuous of her, of course.
NB! · Observations · Nature
Meadowsweet, also called Filipendula, as a fragrant and medicinal wildflower
The beautiful meadowsweet, also known as queen of the meadow and devil-gnawer. Very lovely, fragrant and curative. But since this is not a channel about folk medicine, I shall simply delight you with the perfection of a wild flower
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