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Landscape by the Swiss artist Félix Vallotton, painted in 1918
Sunset, Blue Clouds. The Swiss artist Félix Vallotton, 1918
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A Fireplace in the Form of a Lion's Maw in a Sixteenth-Century Italian Villa
Art · Museums
Stenka Razin, a sculpture by Alexei Teneta, late 1920s
New Jerusalem Museum, exhibition "The Formula of Rus 17/20". From the collection of the State Historical Museum. Material: tinted plaster
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Judging by this fish-tailed monk from a thirteenth-century bestiary, the Little Mermaid did have somewhere to turn besides dry land and the sea witch
NB! · Art · Monarchies · Humour
Oliver Cromwell in a Horned Hat, with a Bespectacled Owl on His Shoulder
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The Holy Mandylion of the seventeenth century from the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Kovda, a patrimony of the Solovetsky Monastery
The Holy Mandylion of the seventeenth century from the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Kovda, a patrimony of the Solovetsky Monastery. Collection of the Murmansk Regional Art Museum
Faith · Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
Icon “The Baptism” from a Festal Tier, Second Half of the 17th Century, in the Russian Museum
Happy Epiphany! Second half of the 17th century, icon “The Baptism of Christ” from the festal tier, Russian Museum collection
Archive · Art · Moscow · Society
Second Moscow Conference of October 1944 on the War with Japan, the Balkans and Poland
Stalin and Churchill at the Second Moscow Conference in October 1944. Drawing by the Swiss artist Lindi. The matters at issue were the Soviet Union's entry into the war against Japan and the postwar fate of the Balkans and Poland. Besides Stalin, Molotov and Churchill, the conference was
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Carl Gustav Carus painted a view of the Imperial Castle in Eger in 1824
Imperial Castle, Eger. Carl Gustav Carus, 1824
Coming Up · Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums
Exhibition “Museum of Spiritual Avant-Garde” at the Voznesensky Center on the Christian intelligentsia
For another 12 days the Voznesensky Centre is showing a small but richly packed exhibition, "The Museum of Spiritual Avant-Garde", devoted to the spiritual and worldly experience of the Christian intelligentsia in the 1930s to 1950s, a time that seemed to many without exit and without hope.
NB! · Art · Monarchies · Museums
The Most Beautiful: The Russian Imperial Crown and the Imperial Crown of Austria
Architecture · Art · Monarchies · Observations
Statue of Robert the Bruce near the Bannockburn battlefield in Scotland with an unusual plinth
The floating statue of Robert the Bruce in Scotland. Not magic, but reality. A quite peerless pedestal, on which, in snowy weather, the horse appears to be quite detached from the ground. Bravo, the Scots! The monument stands by the site of the landmark Battle of Bannockburn. Bravo, the Scots,