NB! · Monarchies · Mores · Ethnography
Russians dearly loved their long beards and moustaches, which Tsar Peter I took from them. But people prized these marks of respectability so highly that they carefully kept their shorn beards in order to be buried with them, imagining how dreadful they would look in the coffin with a bare
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations
The exhibition makes one attend to the place of the body in artistic language, to the interpretations of the body in different media, and to the influence that perceptions of corporeality exert on art. It opens with a sketch from a beach in besieged Leningrad, one that, according to the
Archive · Moscow · Mores
“…And in this present year of 746, in Cheese Week, on the Monday, he, Gavrila, went to the Foreign Quarter, to the market called Ladoga, and at that market he, Gavrila, fell in with the runaway soldiers Ivan, surnamed Stromynsky, and Savely… and the said Ivan and Savely invited him,
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Architecture · Art · Heritage
Allegory of March, fresco in the Hall of the Months in the Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara. The Salone dei Mesi (Hall of the Months) is one of the masterpieces of Italian palace architecture, famous for the allegorical frescoes symbolising the months on the walls of a hall 24 metres long, 11
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Smalti mosaic panels after sketches by Alexander Deineka on the vaults of Mayakovskaya metro station. One of the most beautiful details of the Moscow Metro
Books · People
Alpina has published an unusual autobiography: a collection of true stories from the life of the diplomat, musician and advertising man Alexander Ohanjanyan, "Diplomats, Footballers and Other Musicians" These are twenty-four biographical sketches about how much in everyday life is funny, touching, beautiful, inspiring, at times sad
Books · Mores
"In Tuscany someone has begun to use the formula 'I am your slave'," wrote the Italian philologist Niccolò Tommaseo in the first half of the nineteenth century, while working on his Italian dictionary. The universally known Italian greeting "ciao" derives from the Latin word
Archaeology · Geography · Heritage
A large fragment of a sixteenth-century ship has been found on a beach on one of the Orkney Islands in the north of Scotland. Traces of shipwrecks in the distant past have been found in these parts before, but never has so substantial and well-preserved a piece of
Art · Humour
Monolisa 2.0: A new picture for a new world! The art of our own day. If this is not genius, then what is?
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