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📌 Historical notes

📌 The sword for the harlots: how Joan of Arc restored order in a military camp.
📌 On the finer points of diplomatic etiquette under Ivan the Terrible.
📌 "Sunday: breakfast at Count Tolstoy's; dancing directly afterwards": how balls replaced cardio for Moscow high society.
📌 Assyrian wars with aqualungs: a way of crossing water that you are unlikely to have known about.
📌 A religious map of Europe. How the ratio of Christian to non-Christian population in the largest capitals has changed over 120 years.
📌 On the conclave: the historical context.

📌 Posts on art: from Moscow to Manhattan:

📌 The opening of the series with the art historian and founder of the pop/off/art gallery, Sergey Popov.
📌 The essentials on the state of the global art market.
📌 On the growth of the market for Russian art abroad.
📌 The artist and architect Yury Avvakumov spoke about the principal books of his youth.

📌 Reflections on other topical matters:

📌 One EU country fewer: is the partition of Belgium possible?
📌 On the digitisation of library catalogues and holdings: let us not get carried away!
📌 Why people invent great-grandmothers who were maids of honour, and how we came to forget our ancestors.

📌 Thank you for staying in touch; I value the time we spend together on this channel! Do not forget to listen to the new episode of my podcast. This time we talk about the phenomenon of magical lands, Pacifida, Shambhala, vanishing islands and virtual escapism