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Architecture · Faith · Museums · Heritage

Kirillo-Belozersky Museum Reserve reopens restored 17th-century fortress walls and towers to visitors

The Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve has reopened its seventeenth-century fortress walls and towers to visitors following the completion of restoration. Some of them had been closed since the 1970s owing to their dilapidated condition. For the first time since the walls were built, the foundations have been reinforced, the

Architecture · Faith · Heritage

Cathedral fire damage from last May now estimated at $10 million, not $1 million

A year has passed since the devastating fire at the Cathedral of St Theodosius of Chernigov in Cleveland, built in 1912 on the initiative of the Society of St Nicholas. The fire at the end of last May inflicted colossal damage on the cathedral: the flames destroyed the roof and

Archaeology · Faith · The East · Monarchies

The Roman Emperor Trajan as a pharaoh making offerings to the gods

Dendera, Egypt

Screenshot of an MGTU support service email inviting students to a prayer service in the Church of Saints Constantine and Helena in the Fanagoria Barracks.

Faith · Moscow · Education · Humour

MGTU mailing announces 3 June prayer service for success in the summer exams

Time to Read the Akathists! The Bauman University student mailing list, as ever, is on top form

Faith · Art · People

Rubens's tomb in St James's Church in Antwerp and the decoration of its burial chapel

Rubens's tomb is in St James's Church in Antwerp. His remains lie in the family vault beneath the funerary chapel built at the commission of his widow. The altar of the chapel is adorned with Rubens's painting of 1638, "Madonna Surrounded by Saints&

Faith · Pop Culture · Ethnography

Folklorist Nadya Rychkova discusses the leshy in the podcast “Mrachnye skazki”

Ever heard the story of the leshy who took a fancy to a village girl and came courting her in the guise of a wealthy merchant, and her parents gave her to him as a wife? After a while the girl came back to return her cross to her father,

Faith · Art · Museums · Paris

The Louvre acquires a collection of 272 icons and a Fabergé triptych

The Louvre has acquired a private collection of 272 icons from Greece (including Crete), the Levant, Russia and other regions. The collection spans the period from the 15th to the early 20th century. The acquisition is a significant contribution to the museum's holdings, as it plans to establish

Faith · Art · Observations · Rome

Sculpture of a globe with hidden mechanisms, installed in the Vatican in the 1990s

Could the Vatican not have done without this gleaming sphere by Arnaldo Pomodoro? The so-called sculpture was installed back in the 1990s, under John Paul II, which does nothing to mitigate its ugliness. It looks more like some trinket from a metallurgical industry exhibition than a work of art

NB! · Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris

A magnificent twin-spiral oak staircase, twenty-one metres high and weighing twenty tonnes, has been installed in the south tower of Notre-Dame de Paris

Faith · Art · Society · Humour

The Nuremberg Peace Banquet, at Which Representatives of the States and Churches Celebrated the Successful Negotiations That Ended the Thirty Years' War in 1649

Protestants are depicted in black attire, Catholics in colours. The feast was also graced by a charming dog.

NB! · Faith

Jesus 🩶

Faith · Society

There is nothing more harmful to freedom than liberalism, which seeks to free man from the laws of God under the pretext of civil liberty

Pope Leo XIII