Insurgents destroy the eight-metre statue of Stalin during the 1956 Hungarian Uprising

The shattered figure of Stalin during the Hungarian Uprising, 23 October - 10 November 1956. The insurgent crowd brought down the eight-metre statue of Stalin erected for his seventieth birthday, leaving only the boots, into which a Hungarian flag was planted. The disfigured head lay for a long time in Lenin Boulevard with a road sign stuck into it. One of the inscriptions on the sculpture read: murderer of 25 million

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of 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

Insurgents destroy the eight-metre statue of Stalin during the 1956 Hungarian Uprising

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

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