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Photograph from the second volume of the 1986 book “Moscow”
View of the Stalin skyscraper on Vosstaniya Square from Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, autumn 1980. From the book "Moscow", Volume II, 1986
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Old fish in the ponds of the Petit Trianon and Barbara Pym's remark about Marie Antoinette
The British novelist Barbara Pym, in her ironic novel Crampton Hodnet, written in the 1930s and 1940s, remarks that the fish in the ponds of the Petit Trianon are so old that they must surely have seen Marie Antoinette. In principle, some freshwater fish really do live for more than
Books · Observations · Mores
Men are, as a rule, more attentive to the breeding of their horses and dogs than to the upbringing of their offspring
Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims / Fruits of Retirement. William Penn, 1693
NB! · Books · Society · Humour
Chitai-gorod names the books most often stolen from its stores
Chitai-gorod conducted an internal audit and found out which books are stolen from its shops most often. The list was topped by the Constitution of the Russian Federation. In second place among book thieves came Orwell's dystopia 1984.
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The Wheel of Fortune in a 15th-century edition of Boccaccio's “Lives of Famous Men and Women”
The Wheel of Fortune in a 15th-century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's "On the Fates of Illustrious Men and Women" is shown as a carousel, with a king seated at the very top while courtiers go flying off the rickety side seats
![This book was picked up in the street during the ruin of Moscow by Napoleon in 1812, and presented by Ivan Kulikov - [father of Orlova, the famous actress]](https://theparnassian.com/content/images/2026/09/photo_16875@13-06-2025_18-48-17.jpg)
Archive · Books · Moscow · Museums
This book was picked up in the street during the ruin of Moscow by Napoleon in 1812, and presented by Ivan Kulikov - [father of Orlova, the famous actress]
Nikolai [Rogozhin] From the exhibition in the Rare Books Department of the Historical Library
The East · Books · Humour
Viktor Pelevin in “Chapayev i Pustota” on a Chinese communist and his dream of a butterfly
"Ah, Petka, Petka, I once knew a Chinese communist by the name of Zhe Zhuang. He often had a dream in which he was a red butterfly flitting about in the grass. And when he woke up, he could not make out whether it was the butterfly who had
Books · Monarchies · Moscow · People
Ballet Dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze Announces His Debut at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre
The People's Artist of Russia will appear on the dramatic stage for the first time, playing Louis XIV, King of France, in Yury Kvyatkovsky's production of Mikhail Bulgakov's play A Cabal of Hypocrites.
Archaeology · Faith · Books
A hymn in praise of the supreme deity of Ancient Egypt, Ra, contains the following words:
“You shall come to the heavens, you shall traverse the sky, you shall be joined to the star gods. Praises shall be raised to you in your barque, and all the gods shall rejoice when they see you, king of the heavens.”
Archive · Books · Moscow · Museums
The Hexameron Compiled by John the Exarch of Bulgaria, Pierced by a Bullet in the Library of the Historical Museum during the Revolutionary Fighting of October 1917
“The bullet exited through the lower board of the binding and lodged in the book. The bullet was removed and carried off by the piece-rate dusters in 1938.” Held in the Historical Library; the book can currently be seen at the exhibition in the Department of Rare Books
Faith · Art · Books · Ethnography
Ivan Bunin’s 1893 poem “Trinity” about a village liturgy on the feast of Trinity
A droning bell calls us to prayer, Ringing on sunbeams over the cornfields; The distance of the water-meadows drowns in blue, And the river on the meadows sparkles and burns. And in the village since morning the liturgy goes on in the church: The whole ambo is strewn with
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