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I adore Dmitry Dmitrievich Belyaev
I adore Dmitry Dmitrievich Belyaev. And, by way of a footnote to the news from Russian science
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Child in a cradle resembling a tomb in Lavinia Fontana's painting of 1583
An exceedingly rich child in a cradle, a painting by the early Baroque Bolognese artist Lavinia Fontana. 1583. That the cradle resembles a tomb has its reverse side: Jesus in the sepulchre, at this time and earlier, is sometimes depicted as if lying in a bed. As for the sumptuous
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Room with an antique wall clock, framed photographs and an abacus on a chest
Museums · Heritage · Mores · People
Chekhov's Purchase of Melikhovo for 13,000 Roubles and the Rebuilding of the House in the 1950s
Chekhov bought Melikhovo after a long search for suitable property in other regions: he came across an advertisement in a newspaper and all but sight unseen decided to take it. It was the first house of their own, one might say, since the days of serfdom, and the whole large
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Trees of the Chekhov era and the triple birdhouse at Melikhovo
Not many trees that witnessed the Chekhov era have survived at Melikhovo. There are, for example, two Berlin poplars planted by the keeper and organiser of the local household, the father of the family, the former serf Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov. The peace of the two-hundred-and-fifty-year-old
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Museum room with framed portraits and green velvet furniture
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Chekhov's study in Melikhovo with its original furnishings and a Shekhtel chandelier
At Melikhovo, which Chekhov bought in 1892, he, who had never had a house of his own, acquired for the first time a study of his own, of which he wrote: "I sit in my study with its three large Italian windows and live in blissful content." The
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Today we travelled with the intellectual Club 418 to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's favourite estate, Melikhovo, which became the true family nest of the Chekhovs and gave the world dozens of works of Chekhovian classic
Today we travelled with the intellectual Club 418 to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's favourite estate, Melikhovo, which became the true family nest of the Chekhovs and gave the world dozens of works of Chekhovian classic. This year the Chekhov Museum at Melikhovo celebrates its 80th anniversary, and Anton Pavlovich
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Chekhov's Garden and Vegetable Plot with Artichokes Recreated at Melikhovo
At Melikhovo, the Chekhov museum-reserve outside Moscow, the writer's garden and kitchen garden have been recreated. Anton Pavlovich adored farming, read horticultural and market-gardening journals and pamphlets without cease, and was proud of his agricultural achievements. In the kitchen garden right beneath the windows of Chekhov&
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Now that is what I call a cult film: in the mysterious and faintly sinister, very 1930s mansion of Grey Gardens live, in secluded and extravagant style, Jackie Kennedy's cousin Edith Bouvier Beale (Little Edie) and her extraordinary mother Edith Ewing Bou
Now that is what I call a cult film: in the mysterious and faintly sinister, very 1930s mansion of Grey Gardens live, in secluded and extravagant style, Jackie Kennedy's cousin Edith Bouvier Beale (Little Edie) and her extraordinary mother Edith Ewing Bouvier (Big Edie). Two society lionesses, by
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It occurs to me that Marge Simpson's maiden name is Bouvier
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Tomas Tranströmer, Delfin's favourite poet, and his Russian editions since the 1970s
Incidentally, Delfin names the Swede Tomas Tranströmer as his favourite poet. Now there is a man of remarkable destiny: a psychologist by profession who became a professional pianist and poet, all the while engaged in literature from his youth, and who won worldwide poetic recognition only after an accident that