A Tumbler with a Medallion Commemorating the Victory in the Patriotic War

Saint Petersburg, Imperial Glass Factory, 1810s. Crystal, opal glass, diamond-cut faceting, painting, gilding.

«On the day of Holy Easter, 29 March, a thanksgiving service to the Lord God was offered in Paris, on the Place Louis XV, by the Russian clergy, in the presence of the Emperor Alexander, the King of Prussia and 80,000 troops, kneeling, with the French Senate, the generality and the people assembled, for the taking of that Capital of France on the 19th of March 1814»

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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

A Tumbler with a Medallion Commemorating the Victory in the Patriotic War

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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