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Oleg the Wise Meets the Sorcerer, Oleg Bids Farewell to His Horse, and The Funeral Feast at the Grave of Oleg the Wise, Viktor Vasnetsov
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Venice in 1945, Massimo Sella
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Stone scarab carved from dark stone on a white background
NB! · Faith · Art · London · Museums
A colossal diorite scarab beetle from the British Museum, a metre and a half long, symbolising the morning aspect of the solar deity
Art · Books · Mores · Ethnography
A father chooses a bride for his son in Melnikov-Pechersky’s “In the Forests”
When his son came of age to marry, he said to him: "Antipushka, it is time you fulfilled the law, and I have found you a bride. Matvey Petrovich Solodov's daughter Annushka, have you seen her?.. She will make you a proper housewife: meek, hard-working, fair
NB! · Humour
And then he will say that a little bird told him
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Albert Camus and His Cat, Cigarette
NB! · Geography · Observations · Nature
Map of wolf numbers across European countries, with none in England
How many wolves live in the countries of Europe? England: 0. One would think that those who lecture the whole world on ecological thinking might have spared their own nature, yet they have disfigured it quite thoroughly
NB! · Observations · Humour
Genuine Culture vs Modern Tat: 1–0
NB! · Art · Museums
Wooden chariot and horse from China, dated to the 200s AD
Chinese wooden chariot with a wooden horse. 200s AD.
Archive · Moscow · People
A Former Ballet Dancer Selling Flowers in Moscow Still Does the Splits at 60
Photograph of 1960 by Hilmar Pabel, the square in front of the Belorussky Station