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Barbie's Life in a Communal Flat
Barbie's Life in a Communal Flat. Lara Vychuzhanina
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Chichikov's Visit to Plyushkin in a Doll Staging by Lara Vychuzhanina
Chichikov Visits Plyushkin. By Lara Vychuzhanina
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Bronze sculpture of a chimera in the Archaeological Museum of Florence
The Chimera of Arezzo, 5th century BC. Archaeological Museum of Florence
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Milestones of Life
Milestones of life. Jan Baptist Weenix, 1650s. According to this rather common seventeenth-century scheme of the ages and stages of life, the summit of existence falls at the age of 50. On the last step stands the figure 90. Weenix himself died at 38
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Queen Elizabeth II at the Ascot races, 16 June 1961
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Napoleon Plays Chess with General Frost
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Repin's 1888 painting with the likenesses of contemporaries, bought by Alexander III
The poet Apollon Maykov prevents the painter Nikolai Kuznetsov from cutting off the head of the writer Ieronim Yasinsky, while the Symbolist Dmitry Merezhkovsky, in chains, contemplates the proceedings with detachment. 1888, Ilya Repin. This is just what Repin's painting "St Nicholas of Myra Saves Three Innocents
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When Denis Davydov, on Bagration's instructions, reported to General Bennigsen that the enemy was under our nose, Bennigsen asked Davydov: "Under whose nose, Denis Vasilyevich? If yours, then he is close indeed; if under Prince Bagration's, then…
from Pushkin's diaries
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King Harald V of Norway, aged 86, fell but got up and went on his way
King Harald V of Norway, 86, has had a fall. But he got up and carried on
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Manuscript illustration of a spiral geometric form on a green base
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In the historic Herzog August Library in the German town of Wolfenbüttel is kept a mysterious sixteenth-century manuscript with numerous watercolour drawings of solid geometric figures accompanied by small beasts and birds, and entirely without…
In the historic Herzog August Library in the German town of Wolfenbüttel is kept a mysterious sixteenth-century manuscript with numerous watercolour drawings of solid geometric figures accompanied by small beasts and birds, and entirely without text, save for a few inscribed words: “Geometry and perspective. Regular solids.” There are
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The stepped tower of St Mary's Church in Burgh St Peter and the crypt of Samuel Boycott
The tower of St Mary's Church in the Norfolk village of Burgh St Peter looks remarkably like a ziggurat. Its stepped form, so uncharacteristic of Georgian Gothic, is in fact connected with funerary architecture. The tower was completed in stages after a vault was built here in 1793