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Goltsshmidt's Provocative Stunts in Moscow and His Portrait by Alexey Tolstoy

The Futurist Poet Vladimir Goltsshmidt Hypnotises a Hen, Photograph Taken No Later Than 1923. Goltsshmidt was a fairly celebrated figure of his day, and his fame rested above all on a long series of scandalous stunts. He gave lectures on strange subjects, speaking both on the benefits of hardening the

Observations · Science · Society

Submersible Titan with five passengers still missing after dive to the Titanic wreck

The American research submersible Titan, which vanished on Sunday during a dive in the North Atlantic to visit the wreck of the Titanic with five people aboard, has still not been found. The air supply on board should last until the morning of Thursday. One fears terribly for the people

Art · Moscow · Museums · Education

“Pushkinsky for All” section on the Pushkin Museum website offers art lectures in sign language

The Pushkin Museum website has an excellent page of lectures and videos about art in sign language, including an account of the main masterpieces in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts collection in International Sign. The section is called "The Pushkin for All"

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Fishermen by Notre-Dame de Paris, Summer 1932

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"And did we not prove in the year 'twelve that we are Russians? Such an example has not been seen since the beginning of the world! We are contemporaries and do not fully understand the great fire of Moscow; we cannot be astonished at this deed; this thou

"And did we not prove in the year 'twelve that we are Russians? Such an example has not been seen since the beginning of the world! We are contemporaries and do not fully understand the great fire of Moscow; we cannot be astonished at this deed; this thought,

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Lermontov’s 1831 poem “St. Helena” on the exile and grave of Napoleon

Let us greet with a salutation the lonely island, Where often, sunk in thought, On the shore, of distant France Napoleon would remember! Son of the sea, amid the seas is your grave! Here is vengeance for the torments of so many days! The sinful country did not deserve That

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A Kirghiz convict painted by Vasily Perov in 1873 looks exactly like Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow

A Kirghiz convict painted by Vasily Perov in 1873 looks exactly like Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow. Collection of the Russian Museum

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Trial of 13-year-old Fyodor Reshetnikov over a lost packet containing a manifesto

How a Lost Piece of Post Brought a Future Writer before the Court. The biography of the writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Reshetnikov (1841-1871) began in a most unusual fashion: with a long and complicated trial in which he stood as a mere child. Reshetnikov was brought before the court at

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Why does every man love his own opinion so ardently and beyond all measure?

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The blueprint of the geyser coffee maker that became a symbol of Italy, patented by the industrialist Alfonso Bialetti in 1933

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Vladimir Nabokov on the terrace of the luxurious Montreux Palace hotel on the shore of Lake Geneva, 1970

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Vladimir Solovyov's poem of 1892 on worldly noise and the silent speech of hearts

Dear friend, can you not see that all we see is only a reflection, only shadows of what is unseen by the eyes? Dear friend, can you not hear that life's crackling din is only a distorted echo of triumphant harmonies? Literal translation Dear friend, can you not

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