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...yet there are many remote places in Russia, five hundred versts and more without a town, veritable refuges for brigands and all manner of fugitive and passportless people

...yet there are many remote places in Russia, five hundred versts and more without a town, veritable refuges for brigands and all manner of fugitive and passportless people. An example may be seen in the wooded expanse around the river Vetluga, which, stretching seven hundred versts in its course from

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A herdsman with a barabanka and mallets calls the cattle in a photograph by Zakhar Vinogradov

A drummer-shepherd calls the herd at dawn in a photograph of 1910-11 by Zakhar Vinogradov, from the series “In the Lands Beyond the Volga and Along the Vetluga”. The historic photograph captures a shepherd summoning the herd at dawn with the help of traditional Russian wooden instruments, the

Art · Moscow · Museums

“The Sacrifice of Iphigenia” and Dufresnoy’s “Rinaldo and Armida” after Tasso’s poem

"The Sacrifice of Iphigenia" by Jean Tassel in the Salon of the Cupid Hall of the Arkhangelskoye Estate. Agamemnon is about to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis in order to secure a fair wind for the fleet at Aulis. The departure of the Greek fleet

Faith · Books · Observations

Remember how in Pelevin the oligarchs are ranked beneath the so-called Chaldeans

Remember how in Pelevin the oligarchs are ranked beneath the so-called Chaldeans. The Chaldeans are the retainers of the vampires who suck money dry and who invented banks in order to step up the sucking of this energy. There is, naturally, only one way out: love of the Lord.

Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris

At least 90,000 African artefacts in French museums and the procedure for their return

The French Senate Approves a Bill Easing the Restitution of Cultural Property to Former Colonies. The country's museums hold no fewer than 90,000 artefacts removed from Africa during the period of the Second French Colonial Empire. Current French legislation complicates the return of these objects: each item

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A new selection of exhibitions in Moscow

📌 Lev Povzner’s solo exhibition “Куда ночь, туда и сон” at the Alina Pinsky gallery — until 21 February 📌 Olesya Novikova’s solo exhibition “Сарафаны сна” at Cube.Moscow — until 1 March 📌 Sergey Bugayev-Afrika’s solo exhibition “Rebus” at SISTEMA GALLERY — until 8 March 📌 The exhibition “The Romanovs. From Peterhof

Faith · Art · Books

Wretched man that I am!

Wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Epistle to the Romans, 7:24 The Apostle laments and complains of the flesh, calling the earthly and voluptuous body a body of death, since it suffers within itself under the law of sin. But

NB! · Observations · Society · Humour

A Good Winter's Day to You, and May the Epstein Files Be the Worst Thing We Learn This Year!

Observations · Society

Author sees Greek crisis as a bank rescue and urges Southern Europe to leave the EU

By all appearances, the entire Greek debt crisis was fabricated to rescue German and French banks. All the austerity measures are being adopted to save the residents of Northern Europe, who have staked their money. The EU is finally doomed. Why is Greece in the EU? Southern Europe should follow

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Strange as it may seem, Pushkin and Eugene Onegin are mentioned in Epstein's correspondence

Strange as it may seem, Pushkin and Eugene Onegin are mentioned in Epstein's correspondence. The context is yet another girl whom he is being urged to take on. It is reported that she is connected to the Russian imperial family, and that her great-great-grandfather, a certain

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From Hitler to Epstein: Exactly One Rothschild

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"Doctor Zhivago" read by Kontsevich takes 25.5 hours, read by Borzunov 22.5 hours

See what the life-giving tempo and rhythm of speech can do

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