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"Look, Gran, I'm renouncing all my hereditary privileges." "Yes, I see."
Monarchies · Museums · Observations · Mores · Paris
Marie Antoinette's knitting needles are kept at the Conciergerie museum in Paris
Marie Antoinette's knitting needles in the Conciergerie museum, a former prison in the very heart of Paris. Marie Antoinette was fond of various kinds of needlework, knitting among them. It is known that, while in confinement, the Queen of France tried to carry on with her knitting in
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Pope Francis calls for universal prayer for peace in Ukraine
Pope Francis has called on everyone to pray for peace in Ukraine. Unexpectedly.
Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture
The Greatest Musician of All Time?
The greatest musician of all time? Mozart. One of his finest operas is "Don Giovanni". A pity that you cannot hear the hysteria of the audience at its staging in the Estates Theatre in Prague. But, happily, in 1979 Joseph Losey filmed a screen version that follows the
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NB! · Books · London · People
Virginia Woolf, the British writer, was born 140 years ago
London · Monarchies · Museums · Mores
Napoleon's travelling carriages after Waterloo and the replica bought by Lord Byron
Since we are speaking of the good life today, here is an episode on the love of travelling in comfort. When Napoleon retreated after the defeat at Waterloo, before the headlong onslaught of the Prussian army, he was obliged to abandon his carriage, drawn by six horses, at the little
Art · Observations · Pop Culture
Ulyana Sergeyenko's 1920s-style menswear line echoes Stepanova and Popova
Ulyana Sergeyenko has for the first time presented a full menswear line as well. The declared style of the 1920s is genuinely maintained, and one can make out allusions to the period in the work of Varvara Stepanova, Rodchenko and Lyubov Popova, grouped around the journal "LEF", when
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Ulyana Sergeenko Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2022 online show on the Fédération de la Haute Couture platform
It is very beautiful! The online presentation of the Ulyana Sergeenko Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2022 collection can be viewed on the website of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode. I remind you that the House of Ulyana Sergeenko is the only Russian fashion house to
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Mores · Humour
Thanks to an advertisement on Avito, the anecdote about Varvara Alekseyevna Morozova acquires a new ring. After her feckless son Arseny built a florid mansion on Vozdvizhenka, she told him: "Before, I alone knew that you were a fool, but now the whole of
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