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When You Missed the Sanctions Lists
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A Brief Word on the Habit of Dragging Small Children Everywhere
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Priests and a dog in a chapel inside the trunk of an ancient oak at the Holy Nicholas Hermitage Monastery, Koropsky District, Chernihiv Region, Ukraine
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The Optical Telegraph Tower of the Winter Palace and the Line to Warsaw
Look at the Winter Palace from the start of Nevsky Prospect, from Palace Bridge or from the garden by the western façade, and you cannot fail to notice the tower rising above its general bulk. This is the telegraph tower, or optical telegraph tower. A semaphore system of communication was
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A Declaration of Love to the City on the Neva ❤️
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Vrubel at the Russian Museum, Benois Wing
Vrubel at the Russian Museum, Benois Wing. I don't know, am I the only one with questions about the colour scheme of the room?
Faith · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg · Humour
Block statues of Egypt's Middle Kingdom and two explanations for their popularity
The simplest block-shaped Egyptian sculptures of the Middle Kingdom are found in burials and capture the image of the deceased. They are usually furnished with an inscription containing particulars of the departed. The sculptures themselves are easy to remember if you have acquaintances whose photos show a handsome head
Archaeology · Mores · Rome
The naumachia of Augustus in Rome, an artificial lake for staged naval battles
Can you picture a stadium in the middle of a city, filled with water and twelve times the size of Luzhniki? The ancient Romans could, and they passed their time at such a stadium very agreeably indeed. Naumachia, from the ancient Greek for "naval battle", was a specially
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Peter I owned a horse called Lisette and a smooth-haired terrier called Lisette, and his imagination, it seems, did not stretch to names
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Marsupial joeys make their way to a meal along a path licked clear by their mother: in the wild, it's all just like show business
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