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The Raising of the Obelisk in the Vatican
"On the Vatican Temple and Its Origin", Carlo Fontana
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1946 German language textbook with a portrait of Stalin and May Day slogans
Who is it that always tells us: be prepared!? Who is our teacher in all times? Long live Comrade Stalin, long live May Day! From a German-language textbook for the 3rd and 4th forms, 1946, by Witfogel, Monigetti and Petrenko
NB! · Archive · Education · Humour
American university students in a photograph from the 1950s
The 1950s. Students of an American university whose name may not be mentioned
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The Holy Trinity from the Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours of the Earl of Ormond
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The legend of the dog Fram and the fate of the dogs on Georgy Sedov's North Pole expedition
Remember the boy in the film "Podkidysh" who dreamed of becoming, at the very least, a border-guard dog? He probably simply did not know the story of the legendary hound Fram. Fram belonged to Georgy Sedov, who perished during the ill-starred expedition to the North Pole
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The March 1917 issue of *Vogue*, when revolution was raging in Russia
Archive · Moscow
It was 2 May 1934
It was 2 May 1934. Stalin and Voroshilov invited you to an evening at the Kremlin. In the name of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR. Entrance through the Spassky Gate (Red Square)
Archive · Art · Heritage
Let Us Preserve Our Monuments of Culture
Yefim Semyonovich Tsvik, 1967
Archive · Architecture · Art · People
Henri Cartier-Bresson's Famous Photograph of Young People Gazing at a Ceiling Was Taken Not in the Louvre but in the Rotunda of the American Capitol in 1957
Henri Cartier-Bresson's famous photograph of young people gazing at a ceiling was taken not in the Louvre but in the Rotunda of the American Capitol in 1957. The young people are looking not merely at a ceiling but at one of the most beautiful domes in the
Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies · Mores
Windsor family photographs on the drawing room piano, four generations and the Danish sisters
A few days ago King Charles III met the acting Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, at Sandringham House. Let us try to examine the furnishings of the drawing room in which such meetings take place. On the piano stands a row of family photographs. King George V and Queen
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Hansken and other known elephants in Europe, and doubts over six elephants in Mantua
A festive float drawn by three pairs of elephants at Mantua, during the celebrations in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1640. Most probably we are looking at a diverting fantasy, for elephants in the Europe of that age could be counted on the fingers of one hand. To
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Artist Valery Yurlov recalls the crush at Stalin's funeral in Moscow
And then, when Stalin was being buried, I walked past the coffin. There was a terrible crush, and I reached the coffin only because I walked over people's heads. Quite literally. I was with a friend, a former soldier, who knew the area very well, since he lived