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Saint Joseph cooking for the Mother of God and Christ in a miniature of 1450

A miniature of the Holy Family, dated 1450, shows Saint Joseph preparing a meal for the Virgin and Christ. An angel hallows the scene with the presence of the heavenly world. According to tradition, while living in Egypt with the Virgin Mary and Christ, Joseph earned their keep by working

On the tapestry an angel with a trumpet stands beside Saint John, flames burn on the ground and ships sink in the sea.

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Saint John's vision of fire from heaven consuming the world

The fourteenth-century "Apocalypse" tapestry. Saint John, led by an angel, sees fire descend from heaven and consume the world

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Decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna of 14 December 1742 on the withdrawal from circulation of coins bearing the image of the deposed Ivan Antonovich: part of the systematic obliteration of the memory of the overthrown infant emperor, whom Elizabeth remov

Whereas by the most gracious decree of Her Imperial Majesty, published among the people on 31 December of the past year 1741, it was ordered that coins bearing the portrait of Prince Ivan, in whosoever's hands they may be, be brought for exchange to the mints until the

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Portrait of Leo Tolstoy, taken by Sofya Andreyevna at Yasnaya Polyana on 28 August 1908, his eightieth birthday

A photograph from the exhibition "Sofya Andreyevna Tolstaya, Photographer. The Countess Takes Pictures with a Kodak", which runs until 12 April at the State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO in Saint Petersburg, at 35 Bolshaya Morskaya Street

NB! · Observations · Saint Petersburg · Humour

Sounds Splendid: In the City of Saint Peter

A small dark figure stands on a sandy shore before a dark sea under a vast cloudy sky in Friedrich's painting.

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Caspar David Friedrich painted “The Monk by the Sea” between 1808 and 1810

The Monk by the Sea. Caspar David Friedrich, 1808-1810.

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Schelling on will as primordial Being, to which all predicates of Being apply

In the final and highest judgement there is no other Being but will. Will is primal Being, to which alone all the predicates of Being apply: groundlessness, eternity, independence of time, self-affirmation. All philosophy strives to find this expression Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. Illustration: Rembrandt's etching "

Archive · The East · Cinema · People

Sergei Parajanov and Yuri Mgoyan in Tbilisi in 1988

Parajanov met Mgoyan in Tbilisi. The young man had no connection with cinema whatever, but the director saw in him the hero of Lermontov's oriental tale, all the more so as he expected no psychological game, wanting instead to see plastic expressiveness and the ability to be a

Black-and-white photograph of three women in dark veils seated before a painted wall, the central one holding a dagger and a bowl.

Archive · The East · Cinema

Three veiled women in a photograph by Elena Karusaar, 1988

Scenes from Sergei Parajanov's film Ashik Kerib. Photographs by Elena Karusaar, 1988

Aristocracy · Archive · Architecture

Vorontsov Palace in Alupka, 1897

Photograph by Alexander Zhivago

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Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved

Saint Seraphim of Sarov. No external circumstances, neither war, nor persecution, nor closed churches, can take from the believer what matters most. Easter was celebrated in the camps and in the catacombs, and the closure of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre by the Pharisees will not stand in the

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