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A text on Freemasonry in Russia, its ban under Alexander I and the Illuminati

Some Excerpts from the Book "Freemasons as Enemies of the Christian Church and the State" ...Preaching complete non-interference in religious and state affairs, Freemasonry, with its closed character, its secret signs and rites, constituted a kind of separate secret state, which in governments was bound to arouse

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A Snow Statue of Queen Victoria, Made in the Winter of 1890

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Yevgeny Rukhin archive studied at Tretyakov expert institute ahead of 2025 exhibition

At the Tretyakov Independent Research Expertise Centre, specialists are studying the archive of one of the most prominent representatives of non-conformism, Yevgeny Rukhin, the initiator of the famous Bulldozer Exhibition in Moscow. A year ago the artist Yan Ginzburg bought the archive from the heiress of the artist'

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Cover of Vogue, 1 December 1919

Black and white photograph of a woman with short curly hair holding a cigarette in the foreground, and a blonde woman with a cigarette behind her at a table with beer cans.

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Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve in a photograph from 1982

Susan Sarandon, 36, and Catherine Deneuve, 39. 1982

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Japanese sailors of the Wakamiya-maru in Russia and their return with the embassy of 1805

The Bronze Horseman as Seen by Japanese Sailors Who Found Themselves in Russia in 1794. The illustration is found in the 11th scroll of the Japanese manuscript "Kankai ibun", or "Strange Tidings of the Seas Surrounding [the Earth]", compiled from the interrogations of sailors who were

Old photograph of a bedroom with a canopied bed, a crystal chandelier, an arched mirror and a round table in a hall with a painted ceiling.

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The bedroom of the French kings' castle before the 1919 fire and after its restoration

The Emperor's Bedchamber at the Château de Compiègne. The château remained a residence of the French kings until Napoleon III. The old photograph shows the original appearance of the bedchamber as Napoleon found it. In 1919 it burned down and was restored to the form shown in the

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Since 1891 the Snow Woman has somewhat lost her elegance

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Pushkin’s poem “The Death of Lucullus” and Uvarov’s designs on Sheremetev’s inheritance

Sergey Semyonovich Uvarov, who published works on archaeology and ancient Greek literature and rose to be President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, was an exceedingly contradictory man. Who expects a scholar and thinker to be capable of foul deeds, spite, thieving and petty pilfering? Yet Solovyov recalls that there

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Ilya Repin's painting "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581" returns to the permanent display of the Tretyakov Gallery, where an exhibition devoted to its large-scale restoration will open

The project is called "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan. The Return". The display will include, among other things, studies and sketches reflecting the artist's long search for the composition, the types and the historical details. Archive documents will show the chronicle of the first

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In my view, Nokias were the greatest telephones of their era, to which we largely owe the shape of modern telecommunications, so I cannot but rejoice that from 15 January 2025 Finland's Aalto University will be showing a design archive…

The archive will include sketches, presentations, advertising materials and interviews with designers. It offers a view of Nokia's projects that were ahead of their time: early social networks, QR codes, VR and other technologies that have since become commonplace. One will also be able to study the design

Red wooden plaque with the carved inscription “Долой чадру” (Down with the veil) on a dark wooden door.

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Wooden 1920s propaganda placard from Central Asia calling for an end to the veil

Down with the Veil! Wooden placard, 1920s, Central Asia