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Zeus: a boy is seduced by an eagle, a girl by a swan
Zeus: a boy is seduced by an eagle, a girl by a swan. The main thing is not to get them mixed up. Museum of Fine Arts, Lisbon
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Appearance of Nicholas Alexandrovich in The Last Czars at the Funeral of Alexander III
In Netflix's The Last Czars, this is what we are invited to take for the heir to the Russian throne, Nicholas Alexandrovich, at the funeral of Alexander III. Let me remind you that Nicholas was 26 🤷🏽♂️ Of course, in former years people looked older and worse than we
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Rostov Kremlin courtyard: bell tower, towers and the Resurrection Church
Architecture · Cinema · Heritage
Rostov Kremlin as the filming location of Gaidai’s “Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Profession”
The Rostov Kremlin is, beyond doubt, one of the most famous historical architectural complexes in Russia. Every year many millions of people stroll through its chambers, corridors and along its walls, in the company of the heroes of the Soviet comedy "Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession". It was Rostov,
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Vrevsky in Turkestan and Annenkov on the Volga in records from late 1891
The end of 1891. The Governor-General of Turkestan, Vrevsky, is interested only in women and asparagus, while Annenkov makes the starving hack at the ice on the Volga by hand. Russia and her rulers do not change, even a hundred years on
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Thanks to readers for birthday greetings and best wishes for the New Year
Dear friends, thank you very much for your birthday wishes! In return, I congratulate you all on the approaching New Year and wish you happiness and good fortune!
Archaeology · Art · Museums · Mores
The Getty Museum acquired a 6th century BC kouros that proved a probable forgery
Before the New Year, a gripping tale for you of the eighties, an ancient statue and the Getty collection. At the close of 1983 the art dealer Gianfranco Becchina approached the Getty Museum in California with an offer to sell it a superbly preserved marble statue of the 6th century
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Marble kouros statue in profile in a museum gallery
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Greek kouros statue of about the 6th century BC in the Getty Museum
Kouros. Greek sculpture, approximately 6th century BC, Getty Museum
Interviews · Education · People
Galina Volchek entered the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio at sixteen and spent the rest of her life in the theatre
In the decades she headed the Sovremennik, she dismissed only one actor, for failing to appear at a performance because he was engaged in a commercial touring production. Listen to Galina Borisovna tell this story and others herself on "Line of Life": https://tvkultura.ru/video/show/brand_
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Sad faces and Balthazar's golden ship in Pieter Bruegel the Elder's “Adoration of the Magi”
In Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "Adoration of the Magi" everyone looks thoroughly miserable, though the occasion is, broadly speaking, a happy one: the birth of a saviour. And then there is Balthazar, the only guest who has brought a decent present: a golden ship with a
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History of the Supposed House of Joseph and the Virgin from the 1st Century to the 2006 Study
Pictured: the house traditionally regarded as the home of Joseph and the Virgin Mary. Well, the monument does indeed date from the 1st century AD: one wall of the house survives in full, along with part of the floor and a doorway. The walls of the dwelling were hewn out