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Ceramics, plates by the singer Lisokot and Baronina tiles at the Sample fair at Strelka

Dropped into the cosy Sample fair at Strelka and once again confirmed my observation that very many people have taken up ceramics. Not far from LotyLoty I found almost the same plates, only by the singer Lisokot. I wanted the silk masks at 2,500, but they had already been

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Memorial workshop of Pyotr Konchalovsky in the Pigit House on Bolshaya Sadovaya

I was recalling today how, on the first day the memorial museum-studio of Pyotr Konchalovsky opened, we went there on a tour with Club 418. A couple of days later, it seems, the decree closing the museums was issued. So we were lucky to get in in time. This

On the poster a man pushes against a door behind which a ghostly figure stands, while a woman, a nurse and a girl stand behind him beneath a wreath.

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Christmas poster of 1918 urging people to wear a mask and wash their hands

Wear a mask, wash your hands, keep a safe distance. Christmas poster, 1918

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State Duma adopts in first reading amendments on control over public education activities

You will, of course, see for yourselves that we are having an incredible number of very bad news items from the State Duma these days. Today amendments to the law “On Education” on the control of any educational activity were passed in the first reading. The appalling bill proposes to

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Young man in a peaked cap and uniform with medals, a tear on his cheek, framed by a wreath of red roses against a cloudy sky, with a red star and hammer and sickle below.

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Portrait of a young soldier in Soviet uniform within a wreath of red roses

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An Excellent Alternative to New Year Cards: The Work of the Photographic Artists Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard

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Christmas cards in the style of a Persian miniature by Eyvind Earle, one of the artists of Disney's 1959 "Sleeping Beauty"

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In time, Gerard ter Borch's 1654 painting Gallant Conversation came to be called Paternal Admonition less and less often

In time, the 1654 painting Gallant Conversation by Gerard ter Borch, that master of the chronicle of ordinary burghers' lives, came to be called Paternal Admonition less and less often. Perhaps because of the coin in the man's hand. At first the subject was read as a

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Good Lord, just look at these conceited monarchs!

Good Lord, just look at these conceited monarchs! Porcelain figurines of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette by Neapolitan craftsmen of the 1800s. True, the porcelain personages have ended up with rather Habsburg jaws; in two-dimensional images they generally look far better

Screenshot of a Dostoevsky bookstore post about Alexander Radaev's new book The Parnassian Mocker. A comment about delivering a planner is circled in pink at the bottom.

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Screenshot of Dostoevsky bookstore post about the book The Parnassian Mocker

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