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Yury Nikulin, Yevgeny Morgunov and Georgy Vitsin on the set of the film “Kidnapping, Caucasian Style”, 1966
Photo by Oleg Mertsedin
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The Inscription on the Stone in Vasnetsov's "Knight at the Crossroads"
"Go straight ahead, and you'll not stay alive; there is no way for rider, walker or flyer." Yet, by Vasnetsov's own account, the text has a continuation, borrowed from the epic tale (bylina) and hidden by him beneath a layer of moss: "Go
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Children’s drawings on the backs of Charles Darwin’s “Origin of Species” drafts
Drawings by Charles Darwin's children on the backs of the drafts of "On the Origin of Species". Of the draft notes, only those sheets have survived on which the scientist's children left their drawings, undoubtedly inspired by natural-scientific interests
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Two Cypresses, Paul Signac
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A Few Too Many Noughts
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Did you too fail to notice these details in Dürer's engraving "Adam and Eve", 1504?
Books · Observations
Portrait of the French Writer Jules Renard
When I think of all the books I still have left to read, I am certain of being happy. The French writer Jules Renard
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Salvador Dalí at Cap de Creus in Catalonia
Books · Society
"The whole course of events in the February-March revolution shows clearly that the British and French embassies, with their agents and 'connections', who had long been making the most desperate efforts to prevent 'separate' agreements and a separate peac
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on the role of the British and the French in the revolutionary events in the Russian Empire. V. Lenin. Complete Works. Volume XXXI
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Anton Koberger, Manna from Heaven, 1483
Faith · Art
Christ of Saint John of the Cross
Salvador Dalí, 1952
Geography · Maps · Observations
Fra Mauro's world map of 1459 and the division of Europe and Asia along the Volga
A two-metre circular map of the world as it was known in 1459. It is known as the map of the Venetian monk Fra Mauro, or the Carta Fra Mauro, from the island of Murano. The cartographer was Andrea Bianco. It was made for the King of Portugal. Please