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Pack-mounted machine gun, armament of the Russian army, from the album of the eve of the First World War

NB! · Archive · Monarchies · Mores · People

Grace Kelly, aged twenty-six, on her wedding day in April 1956

NB! · Archive · New York

New York in 1879 😍😍😍

NB! · Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Queen Victoria's great-granddaughter Alice of Battenberg, and their youngest child Philip in 1925

Archive · In the Press · Faith · Observations · Society

Epiphany bathing in Saratov in 1949 and the feuilleton in the newspaper “Pravda”

Legendary images of Epiphany bathing in the Stalin era were printed in the country's main newspaper. In 1949 the feast of the Epiphany in Saratov became the subject of a satirical feuilleton in Pravda; the mocking piece dwells on stories of those who fell ill with pneumonia after

NB! · Archive · Cinema · Moscow

Deleted Scenes from the Film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears"

The snow-covered Arc de Triomphe in fog, with a horse-drawn cart and two men at its foot.

NB! · Archive · Paris

The Arc de Triomphe under snow in freezing Paris, January 1917

Cold in Paris. January 1917

A white fluffy cat sleeps on its back on a white fluffy rug lying on a grey tiled floor.

NB! · Archive · People · Humour

A joke about Kerensky in 1917 and a white cat blending into its rug

1917. Kerensky in a ladies' dress shop

Archive · Pop Culture

Eight of Chopin's waltzes appeared in his lifetime, the E minor waltz after his death in 1868

Riyad Mammadov Performs Chopin's Waltz in E Minor for Piano. Chopin is the author of some 20 waltzes. Only 8 were published in the composer's lifetime, and another 9 entered the complete edition, which appeared after the death of Frédéric Nikolayevich. The exquisite E minor waltz

Archive · Architecture · People

Head of an Erechtheion Caryatid on the Acropolis, photo by Walter Hege, 1930

Photographs of the Athenian Acropolis, 1930. The author is the German cameraman, director, artist and pioneer of German photography Walter Hege. The pictures, taken with an impressive focal length of 1200 mm, capture one of the chief temples of ancient Athens: the Erechtheion of the 400s BC, dedicated to Athena,

A tall ornamented stele with a figure on top stands on a square between two apartment towers. A TexaKaBank billboard sits on the right building's roof under a cloudy sky.

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Stele topped with a figure between high-rise apartment blocks, TexaKaBank sign on a roof

Almaty · Archive · Architecture · Observations

The octagonal Republic Square in Alma-Ata and its changes over the years

A view of Republic Square in Almaty from the south. You cannot see it from here, but the square has an unusual octagonal shape, and at the base of the bowl stands the Independence Monument. The two tower blocks alongside are residential. The old photographs show the square from the