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The Pushkin Monument opposite the Strastnoy Monastery, 1936
The Pushkin Monument opposite the Strastnoy Monastery, 1936. Alexander Sergeyevich gazes at the spot where he stands today. One of the most beautiful monasteries in Moscow is occupied by the Central Anti-Religious Museum of the Union of Militant Godless of the USSR, the Central Archive, the Communist University of
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What Did Our Ancestors Think of Those Who Drink Their Own Urine and Eat Beavers?
One of the oldest monuments of Russian polemical writing, the eleventh-century Epistle of Theodosius of the Caves to Prince Izyaslav Yaroslavich on the Latins, counsels not merely abstaining from intercourse with the Latins and not giving them one's daughters in marriage, but also, mark this, neither drinking
Archaeology · Faith · The East · Museums · Humour
Three hundred crocodile mummies found near the Kom Ombo temple in Aswan province
Beauty and spa treatments may turn you into a goddess, but there is no guarantee that it will not be the deity Sobek, who appears in the guise of a crocodile. The proof: specimens from among the three hundred crocodile mummies discovered in the vicinity of the temple of Kom
Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
Boundary post from Shaydorovo in Kolomenskoye and the all-seeing eye symbol
In Kolomenskoye there is a boundary post brought from the village of Shaidorovo in 1980, and for some reason it is called a monument to Alexander II or a memorial post of the abolition of serfdom. The carving itself bears no indication of any such meanings; what is more, its
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Priests and a dog in a chapel inside the trunk of an ancient oak at the Holy Nicholas Hermitage Monastery, Koropsky District, Chernihiv Region, Ukraine
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Block statues of Egypt's Middle Kingdom and two explanations for their popularity
The simplest block-shaped Egyptian sculptures of the Middle Kingdom are found in burials and capture the image of the deceased. They are usually furnished with an inscription containing particulars of the departed. The sculptures themselves are easy to remember if you have acquaintances whose photos show a handsome head
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Look What a Charming Jesus!
Look what a charming Jesus! My new favourite piece of street art in Moscow, at 6 Tverskaya. By Pixelboy 💟
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One of the greatest sculptures of the Rococo era: the Veiled Christ by Giuseppe Sanmartino, 1753
One of the greatest sculptures of the Rococo era: the Veiled Christ by Giuseppe Sanmartino, 1753. The sculpture can be seen in the Sansevero Chapel in Naples
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Serbian Church restores communion with Macedonian Church and recognises its autocephaly
The Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, Announces the Autocephaly of the Macedonian Church. A week ago the Assembly of Serbian Bishops restored canonical communion with the Macedonian Orthodox Church, which had been broken off in 1967, when the Macedonian bishops proclaimed an autocephaly of their own accord.
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Photo of Pope Francis dealing with a fault in his old Fiat
Just add holy water! This photograph might serve as the finest allegory of the pontificate of Francis I: His Holiness, in person, attempting to get to the bottom of a fault in his elderly Fiat. Should anyone entertain doubts, apart from the Roman Pontiff the same white habit is worn
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