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Catherine the Great's Greek Project: A Plan to Crush the Ottoman Empire
Out of the shards of the Ottoman possessions, Catherine planned to fashion a New Byzantine realm for her grandson Constantine, who was to be enthroned in Constantinople. On the map these lands are marked in red. Catherine is believed to have put faith in the Orthodox prophecy of Constantine, the
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Every time someone says “they’re just stones”
Books · Observations · New York · Society · Nature
Exploitation of horses in big cities and Mayakovsky's verses on a fallen horse
In New York, Conscientious People Are Outraged at the Cruel Treatment of Horses, an Important Part of the City's Tourist and Entertainment Industry. Incidentally, I am sure this is a common problem for all big cities where horse labour is exploited for amusement: the wretched animals work from
Architecture · Geography · Moscow
The name Skorodom for the ring of slobodas around Moscow before the earthen rampart was built
Until 1637-40, when Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich had an earthen rampart raised around Moscow, the ring of suburbs encircling the Kremlin, the Bely Gorod and the Kitay-Gorod was known as Skorodom, or Skorodum. Why? In 1588-1592 the villages around Moscow were hastily enclosed with wooden walls, since an
Geography · Society · Nature · Ethnography
European drought exposes hunger stones with warning inscriptions in the Elbe
European drought exposes so-called hunger stones in riverbeds. The inscription on one of the stones in the Elbe reads: "If you see me, weep." Stones marked with extremely low water levels on the Elbe have surfaced in 2018, in 1918 and in the nineteenth century. The marks
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Since Fantômas is returning, perhaps one of our producers will have the wit to buy the rights to Vil Lipatov's novella and screenplays about the village detective Aniskin?
Since Fantômas is returning, perhaps one of our producers will have the wit to buy the rights to Vil Lipatov's novella and screenplays about the village detective Aniskin? To my mind, against the backdrop of our seven-league strides into the radiant past, it could make quite an
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New Fantômas series to be based more closely on novels by Souvestre and Allain
Fantômas is to return to the screen as the hero of a new series. The new holders of the rights to adapt the novels about the first European superhero assure us that the image of the legendary hooded villain will now be far closer to the original texts of Pierre
Books · Observations · Mores
Russian poem of the early 17th century about a sister's sinful love for her brother
Found a Russian poem from the early seventeenth century, that is, the end of the Time of Troubles, describing a sister's sinful love for her brother. What is more, the sister does not even fear public censure and is ready to seek her brother's love in
Architecture · Faith · Observations · Rome
Saints John and Paul on the ceiling of the Roman basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Good day to you from the holy Roman martyrs John and Paul, with their palm branches, on the coffered ceiling of the Roman basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio, built in 398 over the house of the saintly brothers. The church was plundered and rebuilt more than once.
NB! · Archive · Education · Society · Paris
Posters of Lenin, Trotsky, Marx and Mao at the Institut d'études politiques in France during the events of May 1968
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