NB!
Latest
NB! · Mores · Humour
Those are just angels tobogganing down the roof
NB! · Art · Museums · Science · Rome
The Laocoön and His Sons of the Rhodian school from the Museo Pio-Clementino, and the Austrian anatomist Josef Hyrtl's reflections on the legendary sculpture
NB! · Observations
Frost down to minus 10 degrees expected today, readers advised to dress warmly
Don't forget to wrap up warm! Down to -10* today
NB! · Archive · Geography · Books · Nature
This Is What Snow Looks Like in Olaus Magnus's Description of the Northern Peoples, 1555
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
A new contemporary art fair, Catalog, has opened in the Sytin printing house on Pyatnitskaya Street
A new contemporary art fair, Catalog, has opened in the Sytin printing house on Pyatnitskaya Street. The fair is organised by the Association of Galleries and may be regarded as normative: laid out in a single line, clearly arranged, with all the galleries on an equal footing, to the point
Books · Monarchies · People
The small stature of Marina Mnishek and Tsar Dmitry and the story of the 1606 conspiracy
Aleksey Tolstoy has lines about how the pretender (False Dmitry) climbed onto the throne with his bride (Marina Mniszech) and dangled his legs with her. Marina Mniszech, the first crowned Russian tsaritsa, and her husband were indeed of very small stature. And if Tsar Dmitry was simply described as "
NB! · Faith · Art · Books
The Empyrean, Gustave Doré
Archive · Faith · Books · Ethnography
In the 1642/3 edition of Symeon Metaphrastes' "Services and Life of Nicholas the Wonderworker", a curious eighteenth-century note appears in the margin of one page:
"If things go completely badly, pray to dear little Nicholas: he will drop to his knees before Christ and beg forgiveness for you." The main thing to know about the veneration of Saint Nicholas the Pleasant in Russia.
Faith · Books
Blaise Pascal in “Pensées” on the path to faith through restraining the passions
At least try to understand that if reason itself pushes you towards faith, and you are still unable to believe, then the cause of such inability lies in your own passions. Strive to overcome yourself, but not by multiplying proofs of the existence of God; rather, by curbing your passions.
NB! · Archive · Faith
Jews in the German Army on a Frosty Hanukkah, 1916
Art · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
Delighted to Meet You, Caravaggio
Conversing with strangers on the internet reaches a new level