Built in 1939 by a British shipyard for a Polish-Danish company, the motor ship Sobieski was bought by the USSR in 1950 for the Black Sea Shipping Company and renamed Gruziya

Built in 1939 by a British shipyard for a Polish-Danish company, the motor ship Sobieski was bought by the USSR in 1950 for the Black Sea Shipping Company and renamed Gruziya (“Georgia”). In the film The Diamond Arm, the motor ship Gruziya appears under the name Mikhail Svetlov. In 1975 she was sold for scrap to Italy

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Built in 1939 by a British shipyard for a Polish-Danish company, the motor ship Sobieski was bought by the USSR in 1950 for the Black Sea Shipping Company and renamed Gruziya

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s