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Eeckhout's “Musical Party” under flies, the blistered “David and Abigail” of van Diepenbeeck, a hole in Bialynitsky-Birulya's canvas and other sad facts about the collection of the Moscow sanatorium Uzkoye, in the Bitsa Forest, are described in a caustic…

Eeckhout's “Musical Party” under flies, the blistered “David and Abigail” of van Diepenbeeck, a hole in Bialynitsky-Birulya's canvas and other sad facts about the collection of the Moscow sanatorium Uzkoye, in the Bitsa Forest, are described in a caustic article in Komsomolskaya Pravda, which for

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Petroglyphs of the White Sea and Lake Onega inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List

Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the inscription of the Karelian petroglyphs on the UNESCO list:. For the first time, monuments of Russian rock art have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List: at the extended 44th session of the World Heritage Committee, which is

White pavilion of Moscow's Arbatskaya metro station with three arched entrances and stucco decoration, pedestrians in front, photographed in 1953.

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The Arbatskaya Metro Station Pavilion by Polozkov and Zenkevich Survives Inside the General Staff Complex

It turns out that this luxurious pavilion of Moscow's Arbatskaya metro station, by the architects Polozkov and Zenkevich, still exists; it is merely closed to the gaze of outsiders, standing hemmed in by the General Staff building. Photograph of 1953

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Today is a very important day for Russian archaeology, historical science and culture: at long last the petroglyphs of Karelia, thousands of Neolithic rock carvings on the shores of the White Sea and Lake Onega, have been recognised as a UNESCO World Heri

Today is a very important day for Russian archaeology, historical science and culture: at long last the petroglyphs of Karelia, thousands of Neolithic rock carvings on the shores of the White Sea and Lake Onega, have been recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage site, among the most astonishing in the

Two men drink through straws from one coconut. Captions: “Greece” on the coconut, “Rome” on the man in a green cap, “Renaissance” on the man in a black T-shirt.

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Meme: Rome and the Renaissance drinking from the same coconut labeled Greece

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Can we agree that the American swimmer and twenty-three-time Olympic champion Michael Phelps, upon receiving his thirteenth gold medal back in 2016, broke the absolute Olympic record of the ancient Greek athlete Leonidas…

Can we agree that the American swimmer and twenty-three-time Olympic champion Michael Phelps, upon receiving his thirteenth gold medal back in 2016, broke the absolute Olympic record of the ancient Greek athlete Leonidas of Rhodes, who over four Olympic Games (164 to 152 BC) emerged the victor twelve

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Porphyry and gilt-bronze ewers by Gouthière

Porphyry and gilt-bronze ewers by Gouthière. Paul I acquired them in Paris in 1799 and placed them in his bedchamber in the Mikhailovsky Castle in Saint Petersburg. These vases stood in the Emperor's bedchamber on the night of his murder, between 23 and 24 March 1801. No,

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Are You Quite Sure You're the Traffic Police Chief?

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Congratulations to all forty-year-olds on the birthday of Carl Jung, who reassuringly declared that life truly begins only at forty; until then you are merely conducting research

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When You Grasp the Futility of Being on a Monday Morning on the Metro

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Francisco Infante's Red Square lighting project at the Garage Museum exhibition

Francisco Infante's plan for the illumination of Red Square. Among much else, it contains a most intriguing proposal: a dynamic lighting scheme for the Kremlin wall, in which a white light would "march" along the wall itself in step with the honour guard. Regrettably, the idea

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Svetlana Savitskaya made the first spacewalk by a woman in July 1984

On 25 July 1984 Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman on planet Earth to walk in open space, for 3 hours 34 minutes. The flight itself, in July 1984, lasted 11 days 19 hours 14 minutes 36 seconds. She returned from space with a second Gold Star of a Hero

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