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You Can't Kill Me, I'm a Child of New York
Life magazine, October 1915
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· 1930 stories
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Martin Margiela's little-known project for Deni Cler in 1988 and 1989
A folder of drawings and sketches for the autumn-winter 1989-90 collection sold for 18 thousand euros at the Martin Margiela archive sale. The folder of 129 pages consists mainly of sketches with facsimile outlines and hand-drawn details, supplemented by files containing small facsimiles of designs and technical
NB! · Archaeology · Archive · Paris
An illustration to a newspaper article on how, in Paris on the Rue de Charme, during the demolition of an old house, a skeleton in an elegant costume and a tricorne of the Revolutionary era was found in a wall recess
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The Reading Room on the Titanic
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Service in the House Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana at Moscow State University, 25 January 1996
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Harald the Stern and Elizaveta Yaroslavna in “The Song of Harald the Bold”
"The Song of Harald the Bold" is not the only Russian rendering of the French translation of "Harald's Saga". The popularity of this particular text is owed, of course, to its Russian connection: the fragment tells of Harald's unrequited love for Elizaveta
Archive · Art · Humour
Sacralizers made from everyday objects to protect the inner from the outer
Viktor Pivovarov: "Sacralisers", 1979. Sacralisers are special protective devices for guarding the "inner" against the "outer". Sacralisers may be the most ordinary household objects. Equipped with a sacraliser (a frying pan hung on the nose, say, and shoe brushes on the ears), one may
Archive · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums · Humour
Pushkin's 1828 letter to Delvig about children expecting to meet a sugar poet
The other day a neighbour gave a gathering, and I was due to attend. The children of his kinswoman, a spoilt set of urchins, insisted on going too; their mother brought them raisins and prunes and thought to slip away from them quietly, but Pyotr Markovich (Poltoratsky) stirred them up;
NB! · Archive · Monarchies · Saint Petersburg
The daughters of Nicholas II and his son Alexei, May 1917, Tsarskoye Selo
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The Image of God’s Arm and Muscle as a Sign of Power in Biblical Texts
Archbishop Platon, in his Easter sermon of 1780, speaks of God's strong hand and high arm. The hand and the arm are an image of power in the biblical texts. God's arm is usually stretched out and high when He delivers Israel, or strong when, in
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Poster for the Blue Bird, one of the best-known Russian cabaret theatres in Europe, by Ivan Bilibin
The Russian theatre was founded in Paris in 1921 and run by Yakov Yuzhny, at one time celebrated as a compère and teller of Jewish stories. Yuzhny toured extensively with the Blue Bird, which was enormously popular in Germany, but by the 1930s something had to be decided: to practise
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Steel engravings by Lewis after drawings by Perring, 1864
Old Spain and Pious Bride France. Steel engravings by Lewis after Perring. 1864