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Fire at Saint Theodosius of Chernigov Cathedral in Cleveland, where “The Deer Hunter” was filmed
Built in 1913 on the initiative of the St Nicholas Society, the Cathedral of St Theodosius of Chernigov in Cleveland is rightly counted among the finest examples of Russian church architecture in the United States. Among the donors to its construction was Nicholas II. The prototype for the church was
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Cleveland firefighters battle a fire at a church with green domes
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In my old age (I turned 36 the day before yesterday), I all but fell in love
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
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Leo Tolstoy playing with his grandchildren in a photograph from 1909
Don't Worry, Children, It's Only 1,300 Pages. Leo Tolstoy playing with his grandchildren, 1909
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A wheat field painted by Van Gogh in the summer of 1888, when he left Paris and set off for Arles
Sometimes we all need to go to Arles
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Oscar Wilde asks Robert Ross for books to await him on his release, in a letter of 1897
“I am terrified for myself, for I shall go out into the world without a single book. My one hope is in my friends… You know which authors I need: Flaubert, Stevenson, Baudelaire, Maeterlinck, Dumas père, Keats, Marlowe, Chatterton, Coleridge, Anatole France, Gautier, Dante and the literature about him, Goethe
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In 1539 the Swedish cartographer Olaus Magnus peopled his Carta Marina of Northern Europe with fantastical beasts
In 1539 the Swedish cartographer Olaus Magnus peopled his Carta Marina of Northern Europe with fantastical beasts. Had the map been drawn in our own day, in place of sea serpents it would have featured garbage patches, oil slicks and offshore platforms
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Pedestrians on the Rue Mouffetard in 1951
Pedestrians on the Rue Mouffetard in 1951. Photo by Robert Doisneau. The picture reminded me of a woman with a very small dog whom I met yesterday on Solyanka: the mistress was coaxing the little creature to stand on the ground on its own little legs rather than merely sit
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A Drawing of an Elephant, 1550
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The Duke and Duchess of Kent have been together for 63 years, he is 88 and she is 91
The Duke and Duchess of Kent: 63 years together. He is 88, she is 91
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June issue of RBC Style comes with a Lev Povzner cover and launches the RBC Visionaries project
I do so love the tradition of RBC Style appearing in print with art covers conceived and realised together with contemporary artists. In this issue the series continues with a painting by Lev Povzner, a visionary painter and a master of setting riddles and seeking answers to them. RBC marks