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Porteur de caljan: the hookah-bearer
Porteur de caljan: the hookah-bearer. From Cornelis de Bruijn's «Travels in Muscovy, Persia and India».
Archive · Books · People · Saint Petersburg
Corrector Varvara Timofeyeva's recollection of Dostoevsky's punctuation
Dostoevsky preferred intuitive punctuation and did not resort to the rules of orthography when placing punctuation marks. He read his manuscripts aloud and put commas wherever the intonation called for a pause. There is a curious recollection of Dostoevsky on this score by the writer and translator Varvara Timofeyeva, who
Archive · Moscow · Society
The Legendary US Coat of Arms with Bugs, Presented to the American Ambassador in the USSR by Young Pioneers
The legendary US coat of arms with bugs, presented to the American ambassador in the USSR by Young Pioneers. A wood-carved copy of the Great Seal of the United States was presented to the ambassador by a delegation of Young Pioneers who had come on an excursion to the
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December Covers of Vogue, a Century Ago
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Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin on the set of City Lights in 1929
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Mads Mikkelsen at Secondary School
Archive · Art · London · Society
Sympathy for the Sorrows of a Once Great Lady
Sympathy for the sorrows of a once great lady. Cartoon by Tom Merry. 28 November 1891 Old Mother Britannia, impoverished by liberal reforms, and her Lion beg for alms against the backdrop of a ruined Palace of Westminster
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The Ruins of the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek, Lebanon: Photographs of the Late Nineteenth Century
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Jorge Luis Borges in Sicily, 1985
Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums
Matisse's Watercolour Sketch for The Red Studio at the Unknown Shchukin Exhibition
Beside Matisse's "Pink Studio" at the Pushkin Museum's new exhibition "The Unknown Shchukin" hangs a watercolour sketch of the painting "The Red Studio", which he enclosed in a letter to Shchukin, counting on the collector's support. Shchukin could
Archive · Architecture · Paris
Globe Céleste, the giant globe of the 1900 Paris World Exhibition, and its demolition
This is what Paris looked like in 1900. Beside the Eiffel Tower stands another symbol of the Exposition Universelle in Paris, though one built 11 years later. The round blue-and-gold building with stars is called the Globe Céleste and is, in effect, a very large globe, more than