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At Last: A Full-Text Database of Academic Publications That Lets You Search Journals Published Before the Nativity of Christ
At last, a database of full-text scholarly publications has been found that allows one to search academic journals published before the Nativity of Christ. As a man who regards the sixteenth century as the recent past and can recall the contents of a Sumerian clay tablet dated to 3000
Archive · Books · Monarchies · People
The man after whom Franz Josef Land, now part of Russia, is named, one of the longest-reigning monarchs of Europe, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, Bohemia, Croatia and Slavonia, Galicia and Lodomeria, Franz Joseph I…
A photograph of 1910: the old man here is 80, and he will go on reigning for another 6 years and live to see the murder of his heir, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. If you remember the novel «The Man Without Qualities», the preparations for the coming seventieth anniversary of Franz
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Pushkinsky 🤍
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Grisaille of the Holy Family with an Angel and a Kneeling Monk in a Gilded Frame
Architecture · Moscow · Museums
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts rehangs its main building with more natural light
The Pushkin Museum Has Been Given Light. “What followed was very hard, I would say bloody, work, which only appears to be white,” Marina Loshak. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is undergoing a re-display. You will not recognise the museum when you come to the main building.
Museums · Observations · People · Humour
The museum was conceived as a great visionary dream!
Why on earth is Marina Devovna Loshak so delightful ☺️
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At last we have lived to see the day when the names of Xavier Dolan, Vincent Lacoste, Cécile de France and HONORÉ DE BALZAC share a single poster
At last we have lived to see the day when the names of Xavier Dolan, Vincent Lacoste, Cécile de France and HONORÉ DE BALZAC share a single poster. This year sees the release of the screen adaptation of one of Balzac's most touching novels, Lost Illusions. Farewell, Elio
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Almost Carel Fabritius
Almost Carel Fabritius. This is how one would like Moscow's housing-office art to look, but alas, this is a quite different cultural city.
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Mood this evening: Lee Radziwill at home
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Neoclassical church with a portico and dome under an overcast sky
Architecture · Faith · Heritage
The Boris and Gleb Monastery in Torzhok from its 11th-century founding to the present
One of the oldest monasteries in Russia, founded, if the hagiographic literature is to be believed, in the first third of the eleventh century, is the Monastery of Saints Boris and Gleb in the town of Torzhok. No buildings earlier than the seventeenth century survive on its grounds; it is