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I came across this English expression, "threw himself to the lions", literally "бросил себя ко львам", that is, "rushed headlong into danger" or "went for broke"
Books · People
Varlam Shalamov's poem about childhood and the little that remains in memory
I have forgotten the weather of childhood, The warm wind, the soft snow. On this earth, I suppose, there is no means To give me back my childhood. And so little remains In my poor memory: Cornflower roads In the red sun of childhood days, The smell of the sorrel
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Three-storey corner building with a curved facade on a city street
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
Arkhnadzor reports demolition of more than 25 historic buildings in Moscow last year
According to Arkhnadzor, more than 25 historic buildings were demolished in the capital last year. Among them were examples of Constructivism, eighteenth-century structures and monuments of federal significance: The House of Culture of the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers in Novosushchevsky Lane Construction of the building began in the
NB! · Architecture · Museums · New York · Humour
New building of the New Museum in New York opens after four years of construction
The new building of the New Museum, the museum of contemporary art in New York. It has opened after four years of construction. One question: why so 2016?
Archive · Monarchies · Society · Saint Petersburg
The 1862 newspaper “Obshchee veche” by Ogarev and Kelsiev, on Nicholas I
No, this is not a Russian tsar, not a tsar of the land, such as the people imagined him, from whom they awaited justice; this is simply a Petersburg emperor, born of German parents, sent for from across the sea to inherit the throne. From the newspaper Obshchee veche [The
Archaeology · Art · Museums
A Youth Meditating by the Sea
A marble slab from Piraeus, now in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Demokleides, son of Demetrios, a hoplite, that is, a heavy infantryman. He died in a naval battle off Corinth in 394 BC, in the course of the Corinthian War: Sparta against a coalition of Athens, Thebes, Corinth
Aristocracy · London · Observations · Mores
The 8th Marquess of Ailesbury's fall from a window and his mother's death at the Savoy
I have been reading about the strange death of the 8th Marquess of Ailesbury. Two years ago, Michael Brudenell-Bruce, aged 98, died after falling from a window of his London home in Shepherd's Bush. The marquess's body was found by his partner; he lay in
Art · Paris · People
One of Monet's paintings from the "Haystacks" series
The first paintings of the series were begun in late September or early October 1890, and Monet went on working on them for about seven months. They made Monet the first painter to produce so many images of one and the same subject, differing in light, weather, atmosphere and perspective.
Archaeology · Architecture · The East · Heritage
A photograph published by the Lebanese outlet Jdeed Magazine shows evidence of an air strike on Baalbek: a column of black smoke rising behind the columns of the Temple of Jupiter
A photograph published by the Lebanese outlet Jdeed Magazine shows evidence of an air strike on Baalbek: a column of black smoke rising behind the columns of the Temple of Jupiter. It is the closest to the site of any strike documented during the present war. The NNA agency reported
Faith · London · Monarchies · Observations · Society
Bishop Dewar fears Britain may become a post-Christian society
Anglican Bishop Cairion Hugh Dewar Publishes an Open Letter to King Charles III, Urging Him to Play More Actively His Traditional Role as Defender of the Christian Faith and to Pay Particular Attention to Preserving Britain's Christian Heritage. In the bishop's view, Christianity in the country