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Welsh hyperrealist painter David Pugh Evans, who lived from 1942 to 2020
The Stain. The Welsh hyperrealist painter David Pugh Evans (1942-2020)
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Archive · Cinema · Mores · Saint Petersburg
It's a Proper Circus!
Such was the look of the wooden structure that housed theatrical and circus performances at public festivities: the booth, or balagan. This one is the celebrated balagan of the merchant Nikolaev, set up in the Admiralty District of Saint Petersburg. It was called the "Great Roller Coaster" (Bolshoy
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Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Art
The fresco "Procession of the Righteous into Paradise" by Andrei Rublev and Daniil Chorny, created in 1408 for the Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir
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Yuri Nikulin in the film "Andrei Rublev"
Society
Italy's first Winter Olympic Games were held from 26 January to 5 February 1956 in the pre-Alpine town of Cortina d'Ampezzo, just as they are today
The Winter Olympics were the first for athletes from the USSR, who won the unofficial team standings
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Exhibition of Old Believer icons opens 27 February in Clinton, Massachusetts
Exhibition of Old Believer icons to open in the United States. On 27 February, the Icon Museum and Study Center in Clinton, Massachusetts, will open the exhibition “Icons: The Old Believers and Their World”. The exhibition is devoted to the tradition of the Old Believer icon-painting centres of Palekh,
Books
Leonid Gubanov's poem about pencils, tears and a breakfast on the grass
Lord! Finish off the tears from our soul, the soft pencils sleep in their little white shirts. Tomorrow I shall take their heads off with a sharp razor. They will tell me: draw that breakfast on the grass. My golden one will become taller than the others, for the repose
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Russian Athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games
Faith · Books · Monarchies · Observations
Stefan Yavorsky in a 1704 sermon compared Russia to the chariot of Ezekiel
On Pharaoh's Cart. At the very beginning of the eighteenth century, Metropolitan Stefan Yavorsky, in his sermons, likens the Russian state, "our most glorious monarchy", to the chariot of Ezekiel. The comparison is most interesting, and not only because the chariot, which by design ought to
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A 1945 children's book, "Five Stamps", by the Soviet poet Vladimir Lifshits: a tale in verse about how a boy's father led his rifle battalion through five different countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland and Germany
It may be noted that in 1945 the expression "Russian soldier" was not yet taboo.
Art · People · Ethnography
Stone cut print after a drawing by Inuit artist Kiakshuk, made by his son Lukta Qiatsuk
Sea Monsters Devouring a Whale, 1961. A print after a drawing by Kiakshuk, an Inuit artist who was 75 at the time, had first turned to art at the age of 60, and had lived by hunting alone until then. The stone-cut print was made by his son Lukta