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First Volume of the Literary Collections “Evreisky Mir”, Moscow, 1918
Evreysky Mir [The Jewish World], a literary miscellany
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Lyudmila Gurchenko, Muslim Magomayev and Polad Bulbul oglu in one photograph
Lyudmila Gurchenko, Muslim Magomayev and Polad Bulbul oglu
The Golden Age · Archaeology
A fifth-century burial ground with weapons and two horses excavated at Orbourg-Vire near Colmar
In France, a burial ground of the fifth century has been excavated at Horbourg-Wihr near Colmar. Burials were made here between 450 and 500, that is, in the years of the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire. Archaeologists uncovered the graves of 11 adults, three children and two horses,
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Saint George on a black horse slaying the dragon in a Russian icon of the 14th century
Saint George on a black horse, Russian icon of the fourteenth century
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Konstantin Paustovsky's story “The Air of the Metro” about a ride on the Moscow metro
Good morning from Konstantin Paustovsky. Dedicated to everyone who is about to take the Metro
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Discovery of Sinanthropus in the Zhoukoudian Cave near Peking in the 1920s
On the find of the ancient Chinese ape-man
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Two 14th-century Byzantine icons stolen in 1974 returned to Cyprus from Britain
Two priceless fourteenth-century Byzantine icons, stolen more than 50 years ago, have returned to Cyprus The icons of the Evangelists Matthew and Mark, created under the Palaiologan dynasty, were stolen from the Metropolis of Kyrenia in 1974, after the Turkish invasion of the island. Half a century later, the
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"The Embrace" by Egon Schiele
"The Embrace" by Egon Schiele
The Golden Age · Books · Mores
Leonid Andreyev in “Two Letters” on a childhood longing for zhamki and desires fulfilled too late
When I was a boy of seven or eight, I was passionately fond of the cheap mint gingerbreads sold in our out-of-the-way street, in a small shop; for some reason they were called "zhamki", and for a kopeck you were given two of them. And
The Golden Age · NB! · Observations · Humour
Two men try to free an old automobile stuck on a broken wooden road
Thank you, Lord, that weekends are not forever
The Golden Age · Archive · Architecture · Art · Museums
In an 1856 photograph by the Berlin photographer Leopold Ahrendts, attentive spectators on the steps of Schinkel's Altes Museum in Berlin are absorbed in August Kiss's sculpture "Amazon on Horseback Attacked by a Panther"
In an 1856 photograph by the Berlin photographer Leopold Ahrendts, attentive spectators on the steps of Schinkel's Altes Museum in Berlin are absorbed in August Kiss's sculpture "Amazon on Horseback Attacked by a Panther". Cast in the 1840s, the sculpture was a sensation for
The Golden Age · Coming Up · Faith · Moscow · Museums
Night of Arts to take place on 3 November at the Andrei Rublev Museum in the grounds of the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery
On 3 November the Andrei Rublev Museum will hold its Night of Arts. The evening begins at 18:00 in one of the most atmospheric places in Moscow: the grounds of the ancient Spaso-Andronikov Monastery. The programme includes guided tours of icons from the 13th to 17th centuries, a