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Street book stall beside a Soviet anti-vodka banner
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A Book Bazaar at the Cherepovets Market and on Sovetsky Prospekt in 1930
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Those who have seen little good do not believe in it and must invent it, read it into things; those who have seen little evil likewise speak of it only by hearsay, and seldom at that, because we are interested only in what we know and have experienced our
Nikolai Pomyalovsky. Illustration: Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, "At the Samovar", 1927
Aristocracy · Faith · Books
Sumarokov's paraphrase of Psalm 145 on princes and people equal before death
Put not your trust in princes: They are born of men, And all by nature in this world are equal in honour. The earth brings forth, the earth devours; Everyone born, being born, shall die, Rich and poor, despised and renowned. Then those flatteries shall vanish That were given to
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums
A new selection of exhibitions in Moscow
📌 Closing soon: the Vladimir Nemukhin retrospective "Playing at Abstraction" at the New Tretyakov Gallery, until 15 March 📌 3 March: opening of the report exhibition by the art group PPSS at HSE ART GALLERY in the Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, until 7 April 📌 5 March: opening of the
NB! · Paris · People · Pop Culture
Serge Gainsbourg died 35 years ago
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Paris – Moscow: Lost in Translation
NB! · Art · Observations
I had never given it a thought, but it turns out that all these cups have names of their own, depending on their shape
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It turns out that this Great Lent may be the last chance to prepare for the Last Judgement
Archaeology · The East · Art · Museums · Paris
Stele of Naram-Sin, taken to Susa by an Elamite king and found there in 1898
Stele of King Naram-Suen depicting his victory over the Lullubi. Down the mountain comes the routed army of the enemy, begging for mercy, while up the mountain climb Naramsin's soldiers, full of vigour. One of the outstanding monuments of Akkadian art, dating from around 2250 BC, though
The East · Geography · Society
Azerbaijan, or Ancient Media within Persia, before the Treaty of Gulistan of 1813 and the Treaty of Turkmenchay of 1828
By the Treaty of Gulistan, concluded after the first Russo-Persian War of 1804–1813, Persia recognised the transfer to Russia of Dagestan, Eastern Georgia (that is, Kartli-Kakheti), Imereti, Mingrelia, Guria and Abkhazia, as well as the Karabakh, Ganja, Sheki, Shirvan, Quba, Baku, Derbent and Talysh khanates of Northern