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Inaccuracies in Boutrois's 1794 engraving of the Bronze Horseman in Chantreau's book

The depiction of the Bronze Horseman in the engraving by Philibert Boutrois, from Pierre Nicolas Chantreau's «Philosophical, Political and Literary Journey through Russia in 1788 and 1789» of 1794, is surprisingly inaccurate. The inscription «Petro Primo / Catharina Secunda», that is, «Catherine the Second to Peter the First», Boutrois

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Dickens and Rousseau on Caring for the Distant at the Expense of the Near, and a Remark by an American Blogger

Do you remember the heroine of Dickens's Bleak House who saved an African tribe while her own children were tumbling down the stairs? Today, apropos of this, I came across the following remark by an American conservative blogger: The very people who refuse to make any sacrifice for

Paper cover of the book “Evreisky Mir”, literary collections, first volume, Moscow, 1918, in a dark frame with an ornament.

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First Volume of the Literary Collections “Evreisky Mir”, Moscow, 1918

Evreysky Mir [The Jewish World], a literary miscellany

Manuscript spread showing rows of colourful fishes on a dark ground, with a crocodile and a turtle, in an ornamental border with Arabic text.

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Fishes in a 17th-18th century manuscript at the University of St Andrews after the work of al-Qazwini

Illustrations from a copy of the "Book of the Wonders of the Age" of the 17th-18th century, held at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Marvellous fish illustrate the work of the Arab writer Zakariya ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Qazwini, who lived in the 13th century.

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Writer Oleg Volkov left the nature and monument protection societies as fruitless

And, incidentally, having gained experience and taken a closer look, I withdrew from the Society for the Protection of Nature, which had put me on its central council. I also stood aside from the work of the Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, in whose organisation and

A newspaper page with K. Paustovsky's story “The Air of the Metro” printed under the heading “Story”.

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Konstantin Paustovsky's story “The Air of the Metro” about a ride on the Moscow metro

Good morning from Konstantin Paustovsky. Dedicated to everyone who is about to take the Metro

Black and white portrait of a man in round glasses, jacket and tie in front of barbed wire and a wire fence.

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Oswald Spengler on modern man's defencelessness against spiritual artillery

Today we are so defenceless against the effects of this spiritual artillery that scarcely anyone is able to win that inner detachment which is necessary to grasp the full monstrousness of the spectacle Oswald Spengler on what is still our own day

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Leonid Andreyev in “Two Letters” on a childhood craving for gingerbread and happiness that comes too late

When I was a boy of seven or eight, I had a passion for the cheap mint gingerbreads sold on our quiet street, in a little hole-in-the-wall shop; for some reason they were called "zhamki", and for a kopeck you were given two of them.

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Leonid Andreyev in “Two Letters” on a childhood longing for zhamki and desires fulfilled too late

When I was a boy of seven or eight, I was passionately fond of the cheap mint gingerbreads sold in our out-of-the-way street, in a small shop; for some reason they were called "zhamki", and for a kopeck you were given two of them. And

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Coco Chanel as Abwehr agent F-7124 and her 1941 attempt to seize Parfums Chanel

Everyone remembers that Coco Chanel was a collaborator and worked for the Abwehr, that is, for German military intelligence? This is not conjecture or gossip but a well-documented part of her biography. So, she not only tried, with the help of her fascist patrons, to wrest a perfume company

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The Open Leaf festival of history and archaeology takes place on 7 November at the Nekrasov Library

On 7 November the Nekrasov Library will host "Open List", a festival devoted to history and archaeology "Open List" is a free one-day festival that will bring together scholars, archaeologists, museum specialists, artists and popularisers of science from different cities of Russia. Over the course

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The Bolshoi Drama Theatre repeats “The Trial of Raskolnikov” for the Dostoevsky centenary in Petrograd

The playbill of the Bolshoi Drama Theatre announces a full repeat of the staged "Trial of Raskolnikov" on 21 November 1921 On 11 November 1921 (30 October, Old Style) it was one hundred years since the birth of Dostoevsky, and Petrograd marked the writer's jubilee. A