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Russian hermit Timofey Prokhorov built a church on a Munich dump from war rubble
A temple to the union of East and West, built by the Russian hermit Timofey Prokhorov) (1894-2004) on a Munich rubbish tip from the wreckage left by the war. In 1943 Timofey Vasilyevich was carried off by the Germans from the town of Shakhty, after which the Mother of
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Couch from the villa of Lucius Verus near Rome in the Metropolitan Museum
This couch is assembled from fragments, some of which come from the imperial villa of Lucius Verus near Rome and date to the 1st-2nd centuries AD. It is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The glass inlay may not correspond to the original, but the bone panels are
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The Comb-Makers' Guild Board Had Its Own Emblem Too, This Time, Happily, Without the Sense of a Living Person Being Forcibly Turned into a Doll
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Banner of the Saint Petersburg Hairdressers' and Barbers' Guild, Founded in 1785
The badge of the Russian Craft Board of the Hairdressers' and Barbers' Guild, established on 26 April 1785. Tell me, am I the only one who finds it slightly ghoulish that a hairdresser's dummy is rendered as a living body, which looks lopped off and mounted
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The wealth of Prince Yusupov and the inheritance of Potemkin's nieces
Prince Nikolay Borisovich Yusupov, favourite of Catherine II and son of a governor of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, was so rich that he could not remember all his estates, which lay in almost every province of Russia. And when he was asked whether he owned land in such-and-such
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Knaves of Diamonds in Their Drawers: Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov (with Violin) and Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky (with Sheet Music)
Knaves of Diamonds in their drawers: Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov (with violin) and Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky (with sheet music). 1910, Mashkov. Painting from the collection of the Russian Museum
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The first Russian theorist of economics, Ivan Tikhonovich Pososhkov, a Muscovite peasant's son who lived at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries and is known for his remarkable work "The Book of Poverty and Wealth, That Is, a Declaration of Whence…
"The post is a hole hewn by foreigners, through which they see plainly all our affairs of state and of trade." And therefore the post "must be abolished as soon as possible. The Russian people know nothing of foreign goods or of their prices, so let the
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Russia's First Interior Finished in Artificial Marble: The Rooms of the Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum
Russia's first interior finished in artificial marble: the rooms of the Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum. Of genuine marble here there are only the fireplace surrounds. The idea of such a scheme of decoration belonged to Catherine the Great
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The "Cabinet for Diamond Items" from the Picture House at Oranienbaum is made in the form of an intricate architectural structure with a mirrored finish
The "Cabinet for Diamond Items" from the Picture House at Oranienbaum is made in the form of an intricate architectural structure with a mirrored finish. Inside the display case itself are all manner of little mirrored drawers with bronze handles, platforms, balconies and arches, which turn the space
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Keys to European fortresses at Kutuzov's tomb and their transfer to the Historical Museum
At Kutuzov's tomb in the Kazan Cathedral in Saint Petersburg hang the keys to fortresses and cities liberated by the Russian army in the war of 1812. In the left niche are the keys to Geertruidenberg, Bremen and Avesnes. In the right are those of Lübeck, Mons and