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A façade anchor with tie rods on a wall with peeling plaster
What is a facade anchor with tie rods, or what does iron patience look like? Rather like the back of a television presenter's head after a facelift
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Good Boots, Worth Having
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In Agatha Christie's story "Harlequin's Lane" from the collection "The Mysterious Mr Quin", devoted entirely to one of the author's own favourite characters, Mr Harley Quin, there appears a cameo by the Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina…
While visiting the married couple the Denmans, the conversation turns to Russia. The wife, Anna, is a Russian émigrée who was rescued from the storm of revolution when still very young. Speaking of ballet, she says that she knows everything about it, since she herself once danced. In the denouement
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There it is, and what is to be done
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Here is one of those stories people argue about
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
Specialists correct the tilt of the pedestals of late Empire style gates
Restorers in the Neskuchny Garden Rescue the Ceremonial Gates of the Alexandrinsky Palace - "Seasons" With time, the pedestals for the statues had leaned badly towards one another and looked alarming. The gates, created in the Late Empire style, are an architectural masterpiece of the mid-nineteenth century, and
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Comic panel: a man with a wine glass saying he now does whatever he wants
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Cosmoscow Anecdotes
Maxim Boxer asks: how much is this Shelkovsky? The reply: the work is not for sale, it is a museum exhibit, you are at the stand of the Multimedia Art Museum. A pity
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Moscow lily by Anna Tagantseva-Kobzeva for 300 euros at the Fabula Moscow-874 stand
And here is my first purchase. A heraldic Moscow lily; a pity it is not a swallowtail. The work of Anna Tagantseva-Kobzeva, who mixes mystical motifs, science, actuarial-network theory and object-oriented ontology. The price of 300 euros is close to archaic cults, and seems to answer the
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Presentation of the Ninth Cosmoscow Season at the Manege
Presentation of the ninth Cosmoscow season at the Manege. An empty chair beneath the portrait of Olga Sviblova serves as a reminder of the joke about Olga Lvovna's famous punctuality. ps The best stand at the fair was judged to be that of the Szena Gallery
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Gorod Ustinov microterritory presents TEKTO installation with collections from Apatity
Andrey Malakhov is the first to see the new project of the micro-territory "City of Ustinov". This year the residents of the micro-territory are presenting a platform for cultural exchange, "Museum with Delivery". The museum can be seen at the stand of the Siyanie
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Map of Emperor Hadrian's Journeys Across the Provinces of the Roman Empire
Map of the travels of Emperor Hadrian through the towns and provinces of the Roman Empire. Hadrian did not begin his reign in Rome, and he went on to spend it in perpetual motion, setting off now for Germany, now for Britain, now for the East: he oversaw the building