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Don Quixote of La Mancha and his epithet the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance
Gentlemen, tell me: have you ever considered that those decorated in war are far fewer than those who perished? Don Quixote of La Mancha, Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance
Aristocracy · Books · Mores · Humour
Tolstoy Cousins Alexey Konstantinovich and Leo Married Women of the Same Name
Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy's wife was called Sofya Andreyevna Tolstaya, just like the wife of Leo Tolstoy. Alexei Konstantinovich and Leo Nikolayevich were second cousins to one another
Aristocracy · Books · Mores · Society
Pomyalovsky on plebeians and the nobility's view of them in “Meshchanskoye schastye”
What Do the Nobility Think of Commoners Who Have Made Their Way in the World? "These plebeians, who somehow or other force their way up: in all the many I have met, I have found them a remarkably capable and clever lot… Seminarists, petty townsfolk, all this small fry:
Archive · Books · Observations · Humour
Sketch of an animal's head on the draft of the poem “Andrey Chenier” of 1825
How about this self-portrait of Pushkin as a horse? Drawing on the draft of the poem “Andrei Chénier”, 1825
Archive · Faith · Books · Mores · Ethnography
Mikhail Lomonosov in 1761 on worldly thoughts on the eve of Easter
"The bright Resurrection of Christ draws near, the universal joy of Christendom. Then, though the Passion of the Lord is read almost without cease and many times repeated, our thoughts are already upon Holy Week: one pictures to himself pleasant and rich dishes; another wonders whether his clothes will
Cinema · Books · Moscow · Mores
Premiere of “104 Pages About Love” after Radzinsky’s play at the Taganka Theatre
Another premiere this week is "104 Pages About Love", based on the play that made Edvard Radzinsky famous sixty years ago, a play about how people fall into love as one falls under a train. It is the very play on which Natanson based his legendary 1968 film
Art · Books · Observations · People · Rome
I got for my labour only a goitre, a sickness (So muddy water bloats the cats, A common plague in parts of Lombardy!) And my chin wedged into my belly; My chest like that of the harpies; my skull, to spite me, Crept up to my hump; and my beard bristles on
I got for my labour only a goitre, a sickness (So muddy water bloats the cats, A common plague in parts of Lombardy!) And my chin wedged into my belly; My chest like that of the harpies; my skull, to spite me, Crept up to my hump; and my beard
Books · Education · Society
Putin orders books by Soviet writers added to the school curriculum
Putin has ordered books by Soviet writers to be added to the school curriculum. The Ministry of Education is to report on the fulfilment of the order by 31 August 2023. The changes will be made to the working programme for the subjects "Literary Reading" and "Literature&
The East · Cinema · Books · Mores · Pop Culture
The 1914 Tokyo staging of “Resurrection” and the Katyusha craze in Japan
Speaking of the fashion for foreign cultural phenomena in Japan, one cannot fail to recall the quite peculiar feeling the Japanese have for Leo Tolstoy's novel "Resurrection" The Japanese writer Shimamura Hogetsu staged "Resurrection" at the Art Theatre in Tokyo in 1914. In the
Books · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
The English queen carries on with her book club, and this time recommends Gabriel García Márquez's novel "Love in the Time of Cholera"
The English queen carries on with her book club, and this time recommends Gabriel García Márquez's novel "Love in the Time of Cholera". Well, I hardly need explain what it was in the story of a feeling rekindled between two elderly former lovers that touched Camilla.
Books · Observations · Pop Culture
In his song, Butusov bids farewell to the America of westerns, Fenimore Cooper and Tom Sawyer
Have you ever wondered why, in that legendary song, Butusov bids farewell to America? And an America, moreover, where he has never been? He is not saying goodbye to the United States with its Statue of Liberty, or to the skyscrapers of New York. In fact the poet is taking