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The "Moscow" Vitruvius from the Pushkin Museum library can be seen in Gallery 7 of the main building. The pages will be turned from time to time; I was promised that this would happen every day. So the original of the book, published in a facsimile copy, can
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The Pushkin Museum has summed up the results of the "Moscow Vitruvius" project. At the centre of attention of art historians, bibliographers, historians, palaeographers and even graphologists was a rare folio: an edition of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio's treatise Ten Books on Architecture, printed in Venice in
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You called my likeness out of stone, You breathed God's fire into it. My double, He is alien to me, other and yet alike. Here he stands, clear and stern, And his featurelessness frightens me: Some god Revealed in the primordial stone. Literal translation Maximilian Voloshin, 1911
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25 January. Fell in love, or imagined that I had, was at a party and lost my head. Bought a horse that I have no need of whatsoever. Rules. Never offer any price for a thing one does not need. On entering a ball, at once ask someone to dance
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Colette with her third husband, the Jewish businessman Maurice Goudeket, in 1950, four years before her death. Maurice Goudeket entered the life of the French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette in the early 1930s, when she was already a national celebrity. They met through mutual acquaintances from literary circles. At first
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So strangely freely and simply The meaning of being is revealed to me, And what lies hidden in the seed of "I", And the secret of blossoming and growth. In the plant and in the stone, everywhere, In the water, in the clouds above the mountains, And in
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more often dreams of the help of the Lord, when on a distant path, on a sea unknown to him, with longing in his heart, he measures with his strokes the icy sea, a lonely exile, and knows: fate is all-powerful. Literal translation from the Old English elegy "
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The Novice. Ivan Bogdanov, 1893 A drunken cobbler lectures a boy apprentice. The viewer can only guess at the horrors that attended the lives of the craftsmen's helpers whom parents handed over to various masters in search of a better life. The artist, however, knew of this at
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Aeschylus, The Persians Illustration: The Battle of Salamis by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, 1868
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Aeschylus died on a visit to Syracuse by accident: an eagle dropped a large tortoise on his head. Eagles do this to break the shell on rocks, but this time, in place of a rock, there turned out to be the bald head of the great dramatist
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Around 6.3 million Bibles were sold in Britain, a new record for the whole history of the book's sales and 134% more than in 2019. The number of people attending church in England and Wales has risen by 50% since 2018. In the US, sales have reached