On the one hand, there are many questions about what is happening in the frame: why consecrate an Oscar statuette in a church, and why turn it into a show?

On the other hand, one recalls every exposé of the Hollywood fraternity and the context of this particular award, and understands that such filth can be cleansed only by divine power.

For those who have not recognised him, the photograph shows Alexei Uminsky performing the rite of consecration over an Oscar statuette awarded for a documentary film made by a Russian schoolteacher

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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

On the one hand, there are many questions about what is happening in the frame: why consecrate an Oscar statuette in a church, and why turn it into a show?

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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