Name: Poblamiento del Continente Americano
ISBN: 978-9929-687-90-5

Books · Society · Humour

Alexander Galich in “Night Watch” on a procession of monuments and a bronze generalissimo

When the festivities die down in the city, When sinners sleep and the righteous too, The state storerooms Quietly let the monuments slip away. Hundreds of thousands (all of them alike) Go along the moonlit path, And chance passers-by Tumble head over heels into the "emergency ambulance"

The Colosseum on a rainy day, with tourists in raincoats and under umbrellas on wet cobblestones.

Books · Observations · Rome

Nikolay Karamzin in a 1797 poem on Rome as described by Tacitus

Tacitus is great; but is the Rome that Tacitus describes Worthy of his pen? In this Rome, once renowned for heroism, I see nothing but murderers and their victims, One should not pity it: It deserved the cruel calamities of its misfortune, Enduring what cannot be endured without baseness! Literal

NB! · Art · Books · Observations · Humour

A Francis Bacon Self-Portrait on the Cover of George Orwell

A Francis Bacon self-portrait on the cover of George Orwell. What a stroke of luck, my dropping in just now

Coming Up · Art · Books · Museums · Paris

Until June the Richelieu Library in Paris is hosting the exhibition "Inventing the Renaissances", which leads visitors from a scholar's study buried in manuscripts to the magnificent royal bookshelves

Until June the Richelieu Library in Paris is hosting the exhibition "Inventing the Renaissances", which leads visitors from a scholar's study buried in manuscripts to the magnificent royal bookshelves. The display consists of manuscripts, codices, printed books and a great many works of art, showing the

Faith · Books · Society

Apostle Paul in the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians on those who refuse to work

Article 12 of the 1936 Soviet Constitution contains a direct quotation from the Bible. He who does not work, neither shall he eat. These are the words of the Apostle Paul from the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, literally: For even when we were with you, this we commanded you:

Books · Nature

Boris Slutsky’s poem “Horses in the Ocean” about horses drowning on the ship Gloria

Horses can swim, But not well. Not far. "Gloria" in Russian means "Slava", That you will remember easily. A ship was sailing, proud of its name, Trying to overcome the ocean. In the hold, tossing their kindly muzzles, A thousand horses trampled day and night. A

Aristocracy · Books · Society

Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais's play "The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro", on which the opera was based, was banned by the censors for its social criticism

Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais's play "The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro", on which the opera was based, was banned by the censors for its social criticism. The play mocked the aristocracy and demonstrated the servant's superiority over his master. With the French

Books · Nature

Ivan Turgenev on the likeness of man and dog in his prose poem “The Dog”

There are two of us in the room: my dog and I. Outside, a terrible, frenzied storm is howling. The dog sits before me, and looks me straight in the eyes. And I, too, look into her eyes. She seems to want to tell me something. She is dumb, she

NB! · Art · Books · Society Pages

The winner of the second category of The Art Newspaper Russia XII Awards, Book of the Year, is “Artists of the Russian Emigration in America”; the prize is presented by the gallerist Ildar Galeev

Black-and-white engraving of a standing man in a dark cloak reading a scroll to people in ancient robes seated around him.

Faith · Books

The Apostle Paul in the Epistle to the Galatians, chapter 5, verse 15

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. The Apostle Paul. Epistle to the Galatians 5:15

Books · Observations · Society

Perhaps the history of men's struggle against women's emancipation is more interesting than the account of emancipation itself

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own. Dear women! Never give up! Happy holiday!

Archaeology · The East · Geography · Cinema · Books · People

André Malraux and Édouard Corniglion-Molinier flew in search of the Sabaean Kingdom in 1934

In 1934 the French writer André Malraux decided to fly around Arabia and Africa by aeroplane. Malraux is the author of the masterly novel about the eve of the Chinese revolution, "Man's Fate", from which Bertolucci made "The Last Emperor". Malraux did not fly