I have put together a digest of the most interesting posts that appeared on the channel in September:

📌 The story of the circus performer Matryona Rasputina, daughter of Grigory Rasputin

📌 666 degrees Celsius. The forecast of the end of the world by Isaac Newton

📌 The financing of the 1917 revolution and other insidious geopolitical projects of Germany

📌 The oldest Christian monastery in the Sinai desert is under threat of disappearance

📌 Ruins of a city that sank in the Mediterranean have been discovered in Egypt

📌 The story of the only ancient Egyptian temple in Siberia

📌 Keanu Reeves waits for Godot on Broadway

📌 Some topical news from the world of medieval fashion

📌 Why Doctor Who and the engineer Timofeyev have more in common than you might have thought

📌 On how the elderly are respected in Great Britain

📌 The bells of Notre-Dame: from revolution to restoration

📌 The world's auction houses are losing pace: the art market in 2025

📌 A new recommendation in the Parnassian Mockingbird cinema column

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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

I have put together a digest of the most interesting posts that appeared on the channel in September:

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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