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Faith · Books · London · Observations · People

Thomas Eliot and Virginia Woolf were friends for over twenty years, but when Eliot embraced Christianity, or rather, after a period of open hostility to the Church, gradually became a zealous believer, Woolf said: he is dead to all of us

Thomas Eliot and Virginia Woolf were friends for over twenty years, but when Eliot embraced Christianity, or rather, after a period of open hostility to the Church, gradually became a zealous believer, Woolf said: he is dead to all of us. She called his faith in God and the immortality

Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, together with The Art Newspaper Russia, presents the project "This Is the Best We Have"

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, together with The Art Newspaper Russia, has presented the project "This Is the Best We Have". The Art Newspaper Russia's Choice. The exhibition is a retrospective of Russian contemporary art over more than half a century. The display includes selected

Coming Up · Art · Books · Monarchies · Museums

In 2003 the Getty Museum acquired three miniatures from the fifteenth-century manuscript "The Hours of Louis XII", created by the court artist and painter of the French Renaissance Jean Bourdichon

In 2003 the Getty Museum acquired three miniatures from the fifteenth-century manuscript "The Hours of Louis XII", created by the court artist and painter of the French Renaissance Jean Bourdichon. One of the miniatures, depicting King Louis XII surrounded by four saints, seemed incomplete: the saints were

Archive · Books · Mores · Saint Petersburg

Once, Without Any Warning, Mandelstam Turned Up at the Merezhkovskys'

Once, without any warning, Mandelstam turned up at the Merezhkovskys'. Zinaida Gippius came out to him and said that if he wrote good poetry, she would be informed of it; then she would talk to him, but for the time being there was no point, since nothing ever came

Black-and-white photograph of an elderly bearded man in a light jacket seated at a table with a microscope and test tubes.

Books · Observations · Science

On the idea that Europeans have a long old age rather than a long life

Academician Mechnikov wrote in "Essays on Optimism":. Europeans do not have a long life, only a long old age. When you are no longer fit for anything, and yet still alive

NB! · Books · Mores · People

Thomas Mann and His Poodle Niko

Books · Science · People

Pushkin on Lomonosov's poetry and its influence on literature

In Lomonosov there is neither feeling nor imagination. His odes are tiresome and bombastic. His influence on literature was harmful and is still felt in it today. Pomposity, affectation, an aversion to simplicity and precision, an absence of all national character and originality: such are the traces Lomonosov left behind.

Aristocracy · Books · Monarchies · Paris

Maximilian Voloshin's poem about Madame de Lamballe's head on a pike above the Paris crowd

That supple, passionate body The crowd trampled underfoot for me, And mocked it, and stripped it… And at the body I did not Dare to look… But I was hacked off from the body, Flung, scraps Of inflamed flesh, upon a stone… And the Parisian rabble Carried me off in

Books · Mores · Humour

N. L-sky in 1835 on the awkwardness and woodenness of the English

A strange thing! Upon every Englishman, to whatever circle he may belong, unless he has lived in Europe, and lived there long, there lies a peculiar, distinguishing stamp. The Englishman is awkward, unwieldy, clumsy; there is something dreadfully wooden about him, and in this woodenness, this outward lack of animation,

NB! · Books

From Krylov's fable “The Miller”

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Court to review Prince Harry's visa case again over details in the memoir Spare

Will Trump deport Prince Harry? A good, interesting question. The case concerning Harold's visa and the reliability of his visa documents is to be reheard in court. The story began with the ill-starred and scantly talented memoir Spare, after reading which the right people noticed a discrepancy

Books · Observations · Humour

The author does not understand the admiration for a work by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

What I have never been able to understand is the raptures over Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and over his dullest work at that. It is rather like turning "Ryaba the Hen" into some sort of symbol of the age