Architecture · Education · People
Boiler house with a chimney in the form of a rising flame in Dornach, Switzerland, built in 1914 by the Austrian scientist, naturalist, philosopher, educator and artist Rudolf Steiner. One of the outstanding figures of his time, Steiner left his mark on many fields of knowledge and culture: as the
Aristocracy · Architecture · Heritage · Humour
1743. Prince Dolgorukov receives, as the dowry of his bride, a modest estate not far from Ruza. In time he lays out here a rich and hospitable house in which to rest from the bustle of Moscow, builds churches, develops the farm and adorns the place in every way. In
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On the wall of Napoleon III's study hangs the new plan of Paris, enlarged to 20 arrondissements and rebuilt at the emperor's behest by Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann (the surname derives from the German Hausmann) in 1860. The Paris we see today came into being thanks
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage
The most beautiful fence in Moscow is not the Kremlin wall but the railing of the Demidov estate in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane. And although this eighteenth-century estate was owned by various families, it is called Demidov's precisely because of its outstanding railing, cast at the Demidov works.
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The Hermitage's Amsterdam branch is changing its name. From 1 September 2023, the city's third most important museum, after the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum, will reopen as the H’Art Museum. The Amsterdam museum dates back to 2004, when it began as a few
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Heddal Museum of Traditional Norwegian Folk Art, a house of 1784 built by Olav Hansen. The walls and ceiling are decorated with the folk painting known as rosemaling
Architecture · Faith · Observations
The tower of St Mary's Church in the Norfolk village of Burgh St Peter looks remarkably like a ziggurat. Its stepped form, so uncharacteristic of Georgian Gothic, is in fact connected with funerary architecture. The tower was completed in stages after a vault was built here in 1793
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Ilya Repin and his wife Natalia Nordman devised an unusual table for their house in the village of Kuokkala, which allowed everyone to sit down to dinner in comfort and required no servants at the feast. This remarkable table, far ahead of its time, had two parts: a moving one
Architecture · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
In 1933 a unique automated bakery was built in Leningrad, in which the bread-making cycle was automated to the greatest possible degree. The conveyor line was arranged in rings set on different floors of the building. Flour was delivered to the very top, where the sourdough department was situated.
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The Lenin monument in Kostroma, erected on the pedestal of the monument to the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov. One might say that this monument reflects three milestones of Russian history: the Tsarist, the Soviet and the present day, to which the monument owes the gaping holes in
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