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Natalia Turnova at the Multimedia Art Museum

Natalia Turnova at the Multimedia Art Museum. Let us begin by recalling the artist's biography, which I gleaned from some interview or other. A childhood in Kabul and in Myanmar. You see now where those bright, Eastern monochromes and colour combinations come from? She traced her first artistic

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Officer's helmet with the badge "For Philippopolis, 3rd, 4th and 5th January 1878"

The Battle of Philippopolis (Plovdiv) took place on 2–7 January 1878 during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. The Russian forces of the Western Detachment under Lieutenant-General I. V. Gurko, numbering 71,000 men and 318 guns, defeated the forces of the Turkish Western Army under Suleiman

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A farmer ploughs his field beside the 1st-century Temple of Zeus at Aizanoi, Turkey, 1970

And no tourists disturb his contemplation of this magnificence

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When Constantinople Became Tsargrad

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When "Constantinople" Was Said Instead of "Istanbul"

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The Constantinopolitan Church of Hagia Sophia, now Istanbul's principal mosque of Ayasofya, which ceased to be a museum in 2020, is to undergo restoration

The roof of the church, which is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, will be dismantled. The specialists promise to employ methods and materials appropriate to the era of the Ottoman Empire. Since the ceiling of Hagia Sophia is adorned with priceless Byzantine mosaics (parts of which are covered)

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Everyone probably knows, or has at least once seen in a museum, Abramtsevo carving and the household objects and furniture made in its techniques

Everyone probably knows, or has at least once seen in a museum, Abramtsevo carving and the household objects and furniture made in its techniques. The craft is sometimes called Abramtsevo-Kudrino carving, and it is connected above all with Abramtsevo, Polenovo and the name of the artist Elena Dmitrievna Polenova.

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The bishop's tent and the whole setting of the scene before the Russian host's battle with the Livonian dog-knights in the film "Alexander Nevsky" recall the pavilions of the Saracens, especially as the snow looks rather more like sand

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A bronze statue of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, held by the Cleveland Museum of Art (USA), is to be returned to Turkey after years of scholarly and legal inquiry

A bronze statue of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, held by the Cleveland Museum of Art (USA), is to be returned to Turkey after years of scholarly and legal inquiry. The statue, dated to the 2nd–3rd centuries AD, was illegally removed from the ancient city of Bubon in the

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Herodotus describes Babylon as a square city with sides of 120 stadia

Herodotus describes Babylon as a square city with sides of 120 stadia. One stadium is about 175 metres, so the area of Babylon, according to Herodotus, was 441 square kilometres, the size of 4 modern Parises or half of New York. Quite an enormous city to have in the desert.

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The Brilliant Sphinx and the Pyramids on the Venetian Map of Cairo of 1598

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