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Matryona Rasputina, Newton's forecast, Notre-Dame's bells and other topics in the digest

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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The Betrothal Feast in Vlas Doroshevich's Satirical Novel “Mu-Xiang”

They were served stewed spoiled eggs, roast suckling pig, seaweed, ginger preserve, goose livers, shark-fin soup with crab roe, toasted almonds, soup with pigeon eggs, ham and chicken, boiled young bamboo, green peas, boiled chicken with bamboo shoots, bird's-nest soup with eggs and ham, fried frogs

Madonna with Cherubim in Milan's Brera: from Bellini to Mantegna

"Madonna with Cherubim" was long considered the work of Giovanni Bellini, until in 1885, during restoration, features characteristic of his chief rival, and incidentally his relative, Andrea Mantegna, came to light. What misled viewers was a softness uncharacteristic of Mantegna. Despite the established title, the Madonna and Child

Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

The silliest thing about this renaming is its poor timing. For when the Pushkin Museum was offered, as a gift, the greatest collection of contemporary art of the second half of the twentieth century, the collection of Peter Ludwig, the very reason for the refusal was the condition that the

Matryona Rasputina, Newton's forecast, Notre-Dame's bells and other topics in the digest

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The Betrothal Feast in Vlas Doroshevich's Satirical Novel “Mu-Xiang”

Madonna with Cherubim in Milan's Brera: from Bellini to Mantegna

Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

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