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Inlaid eyes from ancient Egyptian funerary equipment, usually made with glass and obsidian inserts
Eye-shaped elements of ancient Egyptian funerary furnishings. Such inlaid eyes usually contained glass and obsidian imitations of the pupil and the eyeball
Architecture · Moscow · Education
In 1912 Rerberg built the Elizabeth Girls’ Gymnasium in Bolshoy Kazenny Pereulok
The building of the Elizabeth Girls' Gymnasium at 9 Bolshoy Kazenny Lane was built in 1912. The gymnasium itself had been founded as early as 1880, but it stood at a different address, 11 Maroseyka. The building, designed by the architect Rerberg, author of the Central Telegraph Office and
Archaeology · Books · Heritage
Remains of Cyrene, which Herodotus reported as the chief city of Libya
Girls Are Standing, Standing to One Side. The ruins of Cyrene, the chief city of Libya according to Herodotus
NB! · Cinema · People
The Aesthetics of Jacques Tati
Faith · Books · Mores · Ethnography
Ilf and Petrov on the Russian Molokans of San Francisco in 1936
"And here is Russian Hill," said our mighty driver, shifting the lever into second gear. The car whirred and began to clamber up the cobbled roadway. No, nothing here recalled San Francisco! This little street looked more like the outskirts of old Tula or Kaluga. We stopped beside
NB! · Archive · Geography
Russian Hill in San Francisco at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Architecture · Geography · Observations
The Most Crooked Street in the World: Lombard Street in San Francisco
The street descends from Russian Hill, a city hill named Russian Hill because of an old Russian cemetery on its summit. The cemetery dated from the time of Russian colonisation of America; buried here were Russian merchants, sailors and soldiers from Fort Ross (known to the Americans as Fort Ross)
Books · People
We Are Tired of Addressing the Stars Formally; We Have Learned the Sweetness of Roaring
Velimir Khlebnikov
NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
Folding stools for visitors to rest on have appeared in the Pushkin Museum galleries
Mobile chairs for visitors at the Pushkin Museum. So that, having sat down to rest, you need not fret that you have taken someone's workplace
Aristocracy · Faith · London · Monarchies · People
A woman in a nun's habit among personages in crowns and diamonds: Alice of Battenberg, mother of Prince Philip and founder of the sisterhood of Greek Orthodox nuns, the Order of Martha and Mary, at the coronation of her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth II
A woman in a nun's habit among personages in crowns and diamonds: the founder of the sisterhood of Greek Orthodox nuns, the Order of Martha and Mary, Prince Philip's mother, Alice of Battenberg, at the coronation of her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth II. At birth Alice
Faith · Art
One of Titian's greatest canvases, "Ecce Homo", 1543
Pontius Pilate presents the captive Christ to a people thirsting for an execution and pronounces: "Behold the man!" The expression on Pilate's face remains a riddle: what does he feel at this moment, compassion, regret or disappointment? The commission came from a wealthy Venetian merchant. Researchers