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Delightful works by the Vietnamese-French artist Mai Trung Thu (1906-1980). All the works shown here were created in the 1950s and are devoted to scenes from the lives of women: their toilette and their care of children, with the everyday world of childhood. Mai Trung Thu was a
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Yesterday my podcast appeared on new platforms, and today the second episode has arrived. We conclude our discussion of the plot of Season Three of "The White Lotus". We talk about poisonings, monkeys, women in search of spiritual growth, family squabbles, and all of it, of course, in
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Asian cities founded by Alexander the Great and the successive Greek dynasties. According to the principle they observed, these cities and their inhabitants became Greek citizens. Such cities are marked with yellow and green stars. As for Maracanda, or Samarkand, it is believed to have existed long before Alexander the
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It turns out a week has already passed since the close of the sixth "Art Russia" contemporary art fair at Gostiny Dvor. We are told that the fair gathered a record number of participants and guests: more than 50,000 people attended. Interestingly, this year the fair presented
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With my co-host and fellow Orientalist Lesha Strizhov, we discuss how the plot of the series is connected with the history of Thailand. What do the heroes of "The White Lotus" have in common with the heroes of Eastern epic? What mythological and religious parallels can be
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An Iranian silver wine cup with a griffin holds 1.5 litres of wine. Its age: more than 2,500 years
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Today, before the rock-cut temple of Nefertari, the first wife of Ramesses II, there lies not the bank of the Nile but desert. How did this come about? Let us see. The temple was built in the mid-thirteenth century BC, after the victory over the Hittites, and was
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A melancholy tiger. Unknown South Asian artist, 1815-1820s.
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