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Carl Gustav Carus painted a view of the Imperial Castle in Eger in 1824
Imperial Castle, Eger. Carl Gustav Carus, 1824
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Monarchies · Mores · People
A million roubles in the time of Catherine II equals roughly a billion modern roubles
Some Interesting Calculations Showing That in 34 Years Catherine II Spent More Than 88 Million Roubles on Her Favourites. Of course, it is impossible to say exactly how much this would be in present-day roubles, but judging by purchasing power, the cost of a basket of provisions and, say,
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Watercolour of a barefoot wanderer in a mountain landscape, seen from behind
Coming Up · Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums
Exhibition “Museum of Spiritual Avant-Garde” at the Voznesensky Center on the Christian intelligentsia
For another 12 days the Voznesensky Centre is showing a small but richly packed exhibition, "The Museum of Spiritual Avant-Garde", devoted to the spiritual and worldly experience of the Christian intelligentsia in the 1930s to 1950s, a time that seemed to many without exit and without hope.
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Heritage · Rome
The Arch of Constantine in Rome beside the Colosseum, shielded from bombing during the Second World War
NB! · Monarchies · Society · Reportage
People listen to the Prime Minister of Denmark proclaiming, from the balcony of Christiansborg Palace, Frederik as King of Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands
People listen to the Prime Minister of Denmark proclaiming, from the balcony of Christiansborg Palace, Frederik as King of Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The phrase “Long live King Frederik the Tenth!” is pronounced three times.
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The Most Beautiful: The Russian Imperial Crown and the Imperial Crown of Austria
NB! · Geography · Observations
The Whole History of France in the Names of a Single Street
NB! · Archive · Faith · Moscow
Invitation to a thanksgiving service on the occasion of a company feast day, Moscow, 1913
Invitation to a thanksgiving service on the occasion of a company feast day, Moscow, 1913. The Russia we have lost
NB! · Archive · Monarchies
King Frederik X of Denmark with His Grandfather, King Frederik IX of Denmark
Archive · Science · People
Nikolay Timofeyev-Resovsky in Germany, the death of his son and his sentence after the war
When in the 1940s the world-renowned scientist, an outstanding researcher of the problems of evolution and population genetics, Nikolay Vladimirovich Timofeev-Resovsky, head of the department of genetics and biophysics at the Brain Institute in Berlin-Buc. In fact, the scientist, who had been invited to Germany as early
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