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The universal favourite, the rubric, is back with you, and this week we are heading to:
🦖The solo exhibition by Rinat Volgami, "Wind", at Gallery 11.12 🌎Dani Pirogov's exhibition "Light Comes from Underground" at the Futuro gallery 🩺The contemporary art exhibition "Together" at Skolkovo 🏺The exhibition "Vladimir Salnikov and Nina Kotel. Two" at the Blar
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A House of the Early Sixteenth Century Has Been Put on Stilts in Manchester
A house of the early sixteenth century has been put on stilts in Manchester. It is interesting at last to see how old buildings can, after all, remain within modern urban development, were there only the will
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Mel Gibson at the Hilandar Monastery in 2025
Cinema · Monarchies · Education · Humour
You walk into your exam on medieval European history remembering only that Sandra Bullock ought to be ruling Genovia right now
Familiar feeling? Incidentally, you end up at the resit, because it was Anne Hathaway
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A Passion for Greece: Jean Shrimpton and Jean-Loup Sieff in a Richard Avedon Story for Vogue, 1967
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Rehabilitation of Metropolitan Joseph (Chernov) of Alma-Ata and Kazakhstan (1893-1975), accused after the war of collaborating with the occupiers, has recently been revoked
Metropolitan Joseph was a man whom many tipped as Patriarch of All Russia after the death of Alexy I. He is also the author of the legendary retort to the remark that Yuri Gagarin had flown into space and not seen God, which ran as follows: Yuri Gagarin did not
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The Old School
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I Need Legolas as Never Before
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Elon Musk's father attends an Easter service, seated on a chair
Why on earth was he invited to the church at all? Elon Musk's father made himself comfortable at the Easter service
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Kuchelbecker's poem on the Resurrection and Nesterov's 1892 sketch for a mosaic
Christ is Risen, brothers and sisters! Truly He is Risen! Rejoice and sing, my soul, Heiress of the heavens: Christ is risen, Your Saviour is truly risen! Literal translation Yes! Hell has grown faint before the Mighty One: From the fetters of the tomb, From the night of death, God
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Have you also noticed how little Easter symbolism there is in the city, and how little Easter programming on television, this year?
Have you also noticed how little Easter symbolism there is in the city, and how little Easter programming on television, this year? And the few modest Easter decorations in the capital of the country with the largest Orthodox population in the world look particularly odd, considering that the New Year