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A Stunning Shot from the Ceremony of the Holy Fire on Holy Saturday, 11 April 2026
A stunning shot from the Ceremony of the Holy Fire on Holy Saturday, 11 April 2026. Photo by Ohad Zwigenberg
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Apollon Korinfsky’s 1893 Poem “Svyatogor” and Ivan Simakov’s 1917 Watercolour
In days of old the hero Svyatogor, Sensing in himself a presumptuous strength, In an ill hour resolved with his hand To lift up and overturn the universe. And on his swift steed He rode out on a considerable journey, Riding to seek the pull of the earth, He sees
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Two Women in Embroidered Costumes in a Studio, Vintage Photograph
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Lilya Brik and Elsa Triolet in Nadezhda Lamanova's dresses made of towels and tablecloths
The sisters Lilya Brik and Elsa Triolet show off dresses by Nadezhda Lamanova before the lens of the photographer Germaine Krull during a shoot in Berlin in 1925 for the newspaper Excelsior-Dimanche. Lilya Brik and Elsa Triolet were not mannequins. One was Mayakovsky's beloved and the chief
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When the Talk Turns to Western Gender Ideology
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The secret monastic tonsure of Alexey Losev, his skufia and two companions
On 3 June 1929 the philosopher Alexei Losev and his wife Valentina were secretly tonsured as monastics by the Athonite elder Archimandrite David, taking the names Andronik and Athanasia. It was a monastic tonsure "in the world", that is, without withdrawal to a monastery. The person goes on
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Snowdrops
Photograph by Igor Gnevashev, 1965
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European Commission accuses biennale of breaching sanctions over Russian participation
European Commission threatens to strip Venice Biennale of $2.3 million grant unless it drops the Russian pavilion. In a letter of 10 April addressed to the Biennale's president, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, the European Commission accused the organisers of breaching sanctions against Russia. The substance of the complaint: the
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84 musical theatres in the USSR by 1984 and Russia's opera houses opened in the Soviet period
By 1984 the USSR had 84 musical theatres, including 50 opera and ballet theatres and 34 theatres of musical comedy and operetta. There were theatres in every capital of the union republics, as well as in the large cultural and industrial centres: Leningrad, Novosibirsk, Perm, Irkutsk, Rostov-on-Don and
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Amazon to cut Kindle Store access for 2012 and older Kindle models from 20 May 2026
From 20 May 2026, owners of Kindle e-readers released in 2012 and earlier will lose access to the Amazon store. The devices will no longer be able to buy, borrow or download new books through the Kindle Store. The restriction affects every model from the very first Kindle of
NB! · Archive · Moscow
The Company of the Konstantin Stanislavsky Opera Theatre before the Set for the Production of "Eugene Onegin" in 1936
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It All Comes Down to Thoughts
It all comes down to thoughts. Thought is the beginning of everything. And thoughts can be controlled. And so the chief business of self-improvement is to work on one's thoughts Leo Tolstoy