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It looks as though Stanley Kubrick, on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1966, is serving the ball straight to Dmitri Shostakovich, who is playing catch with his son Maxim on a lawn in the 1940s
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Dale Guthrie cooked a stew from the mummified bison Blue Babe in 1984
There have been other occasions when modern people ate frozen representatives of the Pleistocene megafauna found in icy landscapes. And I am not speaking of Andrew Bergman's crime comedy "The Freshman", in which, for a million dollars, Hawaiian tiger fish mixed with smoked turkey was served
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Fashion is fashion, but perhaps you had better see a trichologist?
The First Doctor Who, William Hartnell, tries on a wig
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29 years of Absolutely Fabulous, whose first episode aired on the BBC on 12 November 1992
How does a fashion show differ from a war? In an army, not every detachment has a Yasmin Le Bon, generals are not obliged to embrace everyone after each manoeuvre, and operations are not conducted to the beat of rap and avant-garde music. Many people's notions of
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On 7 November 1917 the storming of the Winter Palace took place, the seat of the Provisional Government
On 7 November 1917 the storming of the Winter Palace took place, the seat of the Provisional Government. The well-known footage of the storming of the Winter Palace is in fact not documentary: this shot, like many others, comes from Nikolay Evreinov's theatrical production "The Storming
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The Gladiator Is Not What He Was
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Primaticcio’s 1540 Spring Costume and the Living Trees in Alexander Rou’s “Morozko”
On the one hand, these costumes resemble the work of contemporary Russian designers. On the other, they are very interesting and, in their own way, beautiful, if alarming. Costume of a spring beneath a grove, 1540, by Francesco Primaticcio. Costume of the animated trees from the fairy tale "Morozko&
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Monica Bellucci as one of Dracula's brides in Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film
Monica Bellucci in one of her first film roles: one of Dracula's brides in Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula" of 1992. Beside her are Michaela Bercu and Florina Kendrick, whose names, if one is to be honest, I have never happened to hear
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At last we have lived to see the day when the names of Xavier Dolan, Vincent Lacoste, Cécile de France and HONORÉ DE BALZAC share a single poster
At last we have lived to see the day when the names of Xavier Dolan, Vincent Lacoste, Cécile de France and HONORÉ DE BALZAC share a single poster. This year sees the release of the screen adaptation of one of Balzac's most touching novels, Lost Illusions. Farewell, Elio
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Mikhail Kozakov and Oleg Tabakov
Mikhail Kozakov and Oleg Tabakov. The MKhAT hostel, 1956
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The cover of Bauhaus's debut single Bela Lugosi's Dead: a still from the 1926 film The Sorrows of Satan, an adaptation of the incredibly popular mystical novel of the same name by the English writer Marie Corelli, naturally, about a pact with the devil…
The cover of Bauhaus's debut single Bela Lugosi's Dead: a still from the 1926 film The Sorrows of Satan, an adaptation of the incredibly popular mystical novel of the same name by the English writer Marie Corelli, naturally, about a pact with the devil. Much as