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Abraham Lincoln at the beginning of his presidency, in 1861, and at the end, in 1865
Architecture · Moscow · Mores
A 1950s stove door in the basement of the Leform shop on Povarskaya Street
A 1950s stove door in the basement of the Leform shop on Povarskaya Street. The house, built in 1952, where Sergey Mikhalkov lived with Natalia Konchalovskaya, was, like thousands of other houses of the time, centrally heated, though from boiler houses of its own, unlike the thousands of houses that
Books · Observations · Education
Grammatical gender of the word biennale in spelling and foreign word dictionaries
In the Russian Academy of Sciences' Orthographic Dictionary of Russian, biennale and b'ennale are recorded as nouns of masculine or feminine gender. The dictionary of foreign words, however, makes biennale neuter. In practice, meanwhile, we find that biennale is most often used as a feminine word. Though
Art · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
Moscow Biennale of Young Art held during the pandemic, a visitor's impressions
Went to the Moscow Biennale of Young Art yesterday and was at first disappointed, but after talking to some gallerist acquaintances, I have partly changed my mind. After all, one ought not to have compared this event from the outset with the major art occasions of not so long ago,
Art · Museums · New York
How can gallery-goers who linger before a single picture at a private view help art?
How can gallery-goers who linger before a single picture at a private view help art? A visitor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York noticed that the exhibition “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle” was missing several paintings from the master's celebrated series “Struggle: From the
Faith · Society · Rome
On 30 October the Secretariat of State of the Vatican sent bishops around the world this letter on the Pope's words about civil unions for same-sex couples
On 30 October the Secretariat of State of the Vatican sent bishops around the world this letter on the Pope's words about civil unions for same-sex couples. The text states outright that the statement as presented in Afineevsky's film is, firstly, stitched together from two
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Formal portrait of a man in an ermine-trimmed robe in a palace hall
Aristocracy · Monarchies
The tradition of abdication in the Dutch royal house from Wilhelmina to Beatrix
In the twentieth century the royal house of the Netherlands established a curious and honourable tradition: several generations of monarchs abdicated without waiting for the infirmities of old age, and handed the crown to the young. Queen Wilhelmina (1880-1962), the only daughter of Willem III to outlive him, reigned
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What Princess Beatrix Looks Like at the Age of 82
Princess Beatrix is 82 now, and this is roughly how she looks. A beauty 🥰
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Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands and Scarlett Johansson
Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands and Scarlett Johansson. Although in other photos there is no such resemblance
Archive · Monarchies · Museums · Nature
In 2015 the Rijksmuseum first showed Willem II's stuffed horse Veksi, a Waterloo veteran
In 2015 the Rijksmuseum displayed the stuffed horse of Willem II to the public for the first time. The beloved horse of the King of the Netherlands, Wexy, took part in the Battle of Waterloo together with his gallant master, and the two were wounded together. After the favourite'