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Velvet liturgical vestment with metal-thread embroidery in a museum display
Almaty · Faith · Cinema · Museums
Authentic 17th-century sakkos from the New Jerusalem Museum in a film shot in Alma-Ata
In Filming "Ivan the Terrible", Sergei Eisenstein Used Authentic Historical Costumes. The film was shot while Mosfilm was evacuated to Alma-Ata. At the same time the city was also sheltering, in evacuation, the collection of church textiles of the New Jerusalem Museum, the foremost assemblage of Russian
NB! · Archive · Mores · Society
The Rules of Honest Trade from the Sixteenth Century: Do Not Sell Dyed Cloth for Taffeta, Verdigris-Green Copper for Gold, or Glass for a Diamond
Cinema · Books · Moscow · Observations
Vladimir Mirzoev on the new screen adaptation of Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”
It is no accident that Dostoevsky tops the IMDb ranking of the "100 Greatest Authors of All Time": he remains not merely one of the most published and most read writers, but also the most adapted for the screen. But why does it matter to go on adapting
Art · Museums
Stenka Razin, a sculpture by Alexei Teneta, late 1920s
New Jerusalem Museum, exhibition "The Formula of Rus 17/20". From the collection of the State Historical Museum. Material: tinted plaster
NB! · Cinema · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
The makers of The Crown have, of course, flattered Charles rather a lot
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Judging by this fish-tailed monk from a thirteenth-century bestiary, the Little Mermaid did have somewhere to turn besides dry land and the sea witch
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Studio group portrait of a young man in uniform with four boys and a small girl
Archive · Mores · Society · Paris · People
Granddaughter of merchant Grigory Yeliseyev in the USSR gave an inheritance of millions of francs to the state
The merchant Grigory Grigoryevich Yeliseyev, one of the richest men in the country and grandson of the founder of a famous trading dynasty, managed to leave Russia in 1920; by then he had property and accounts abroad and had no difficulty arranging his life. But not all of his children
Faith · Observations · Education
The Lord's Prayer read in English in Orthodox churches in Australia
The Cathedral of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos in Melbourne, Australia. It turns out that in Orthodox churches in Australia the "Our Father" is also recited in English. It sounds very unfamiliar. The text, as I understand it, is taken from Protestant translations. I consider it
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