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Yesterday the ladies seated next to me in the auditorium were discussing the price of tickets to the Bolshoi, and concluded that it would be better to buy plane tickets and fly off to see "Spartacus" at the Novosibirsk Theatre

Yesterday the ladies seated next to me in the auditorium were discussing the price of tickets to the Bolshoi, and concluded that it would be better to buy plane tickets and fly off to see "Spartacus" at the Novosibirsk Theatre. The company is splendid, the production is praised,

Faith · Art · Moscow · Mores

The opera "Stiffelio" never became widely known

The opera "Stiffelio" never became widely known. On its appearance in 1850 it was mangled by the censors and consigned to oblivion. The story of a married Protestant pastor capable of forgiving his wife her infidelity provoked a stormy and hostile reaction in Catholic Italy. Years later Verdi

Archive · Faith · The East · Education

The Mir Yeshiva’s route from Mir through Vilna and Shanghai to Brooklyn and Jerusalem

Pupils of One of the Most Famous Jewish Religious Schools, the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai. Founded in 1815 in the small town of Mir in the Russian Empire, on the territory of present-day Belarus, the Mir Yeshiva played a key role in the development of Jewish religious education. And

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Good morning!

Good morning! Has anyone seen Papa?

Old engraving: a man with a bow and a woman holding a baby, both in fur hoods, beside a reindeer. Behind them a skier, a reindeer-drawn sledge and conical dwellings.

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Man and woman in fur clothing before a northern landscape with reindeer

NB! · Archive · Art · Ethnography

Sketches of Lapp Life, Early Eighteenth Century

Painting of ripe raspberries spilling from an overturned white cup onto moss, against a dark background with raspberry leaves. The artist's signature is at lower right.

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Still life with raspberries spilling from an overturned white cup

Art · Observations · People · Humour

Brothers Carduccios Plantagenet and Morston Constantine, Artists from Ohio

The Edible, Exceedingly Appetising Still Lifes of the American Painter Carduccius Plantagenet Ream (1838-1917) And note that Carduccius Plantagenet is his given name; his brother, also a well-known painter, was called Morston Constantine. They were born in Ohio, and Carduccius studied in London. We must, of course, pay

In a museum hall, an old painting of the Madonna, Child and kneeling Magi in a gold frame hangs on a white wall. Other paintings and white partitions are visible beyond.

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Adoration of the Magi painting in a gilded frame in a museum gallery

Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums

The Pushkin Museum Acquires “The Adoration of the Magi” by Otto van Veen, Teacher of Rubens

The Pushkin Museum has acquired the painting "The Adoration of the Magi" by Otto van Veen, one of the greatest Flemish masters of the 17th century and the chief teacher and mentor of Rubens. The painting was executed by the celebrated master in his Antwerp period, around 1600.

Aristocracy · Archive · Mores

Russian roots of the Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn princes and their living descendants

Princess Yvonne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, aged 13, and her brother Prince Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, aged 12, on holiday in Majorca in 1955. Yvonne sips Dry Sack sherry, Alexander finishes off a cigarette. The photograph is by the models' mother, Princess Marianne, who worked as a professional

Painting of a nude man and woman before dark foliage: she offers him an apple, he holds a leafy twig. A snake coils on the tree; a stag and a lion lie below.

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