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Conference on Patronage and an Evening in Memory of Ivan Betskoy and Russian Patrons

Concluding the conference "The History of Charity and Patronage in Moscow", the Ivan Betskoy Foundation held a reception in honour of Patron and Philanthropist Day. If the conference itself was given over to discussions of the activities of patrons, the formation of museum collections and trusteeship in education

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Incorrect date of Peter and Catherine's marriage in Gerakov's 1807 book

I have found a most ludicrous discrepancy in the text of Gavriil Gerakov's book "Memorable Events in Russian History from the Birth of Peter the Great to His Death" Gerakov writes that Peter married Catherine (Alexeyevna, that is, Marta) of the Skavronsky family in May 1707,

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Lines from Ivan Pnin’s 1805 poem “Man” on the condition of the slave

In what dread expanse I behold The Slave apart from Man, One, like the sun in a clear sky, The Other as gloomy as the earth. One is everything, the other a nullity, If only he had known his slavish duty, Had questioned nature; had examined Who is to blame

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I asked my dearest Sasha Murashkin to photograph me with a most heartfelt work, which I have named Sleeping Beauty, by the charming artist Masha Rudenko from Polina Askery's gallery at the |catalog| fair

Completely smitten

Silhouette of a statue on a tall pillar against pink and grey clouds, shot through a rain-speckled window, with a road sign and city buildings below.

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Gagarin Monument Against a Pink Sunset Sky

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The Handsome Yuri Gagarin: One of Moscow's Finest Monuments and Among the Most Beautiful Space Monuments in the World

The work of the sculptor Pavel Bondarenko, with the architects Yakov Belopolsky and Fyodor Gazhevsky. The monument stands 42 metres high and was erected in 1980 for the Moscow Olympics. Gagarin is made of a special titanium alloy.

Close-up of a marble head of a man with short locks combed forward, a damaged wreath and ribbons hanging by the ears. The eyes are blank; the background is red.

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Ancient marble bust of a man wearing a wreath, against a red background

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Know anyone as much like Caligula as Joffrey Baratheon?

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The Chapel of Eleonora of Toledo, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Frescoes by Agnolo Bronzino

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Anatoly Mariengof's poem about 1917 and the break with the past

Each day of ours is a new chapter of the Bible. Each page will be Great to thousands of generations. We are those of whom they will say: "The lucky ones, they lived in 1917." And you are still wailing: we are lost! Still squandering your whimpers! Foolish

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The Situation

Rows of yellow electric scooters stand on a square before a pale colonnaded building under a cloudy sky; small coloured rectangles are scattered on the ground.

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