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The Metropolitan Museum and the Louvre Prepare “Rembrandt and the Ancients” for New York in 2027 and Paris in 2028

The Metropolitan Museum and the Louvre are jointly preparing the exhibition "Rembrandt and the Ancients". It will open in New York in November 2027 and travel to Paris in 2028. For the first time in more than twenty years, the Metropolitan will show so full a retrospective of

Black-and-white lithograph of a church with a tall dome and spire, with people, a horseman and a cart on the road before it and trees on both sides.

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The Church of the Invalides in Paris in a Lithograph of 1840

Les Invalides. Lithograph of 1840

Black-and-white photograph of a man in military uniform and a woman in a hat holding a parasol, seated on benches in a park.

The Golden Age · Archive · Monarchies · Observations

Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna in the Alexander Park at Tsarskoye Selo, May 1917

Emperor Nicholas II with Alexandra Feodorovna in the Alexander Park. Tsarskoye Selo. May 1917. Not the most flattering angle for the Empress: this photograph, of course, shows that she looked somewhat older than her 45 years, especially next to such a handsome man.

The stone Triumphal Arch on Gorky Street in Moscow in the 1930s.

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Bove's Triumphal Arch on Tverskaya in Moscow, dismantled in 1936 and rebuilt on Kutuzovsky Prospekt

A view of the Triumphal Arch in Moscow in the 1930s. As you can see, the stone Triumphal Gates, built to the design of the architect Osip Bove in 1829 - 1834, still stand on Tverskaya, then Gorky Street. In 1936 the arch was dismantled. The monument would be recreated only

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Names of battles against the Russian army on the arch and the Austerlitz bas-relief

The arch carries no Russian towns in the sense of places “taken”; what it carries are the names of battles fought against the Russian army. They fall into several groups. The campaign of 1812 Battles fought on the territory of the Russian Empire are inscribed in the French transcription of

Old photograph of a standing man in a hat beside a reindeer carrying two children in fur clothing, on snowy ground.

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Family portrait with reindeer, photograph from the 1910s

Portrait of a family with reindeer, 1910s

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Hieromonk Sofontiy of the Kerzhenets, an Old Believer father: his grave, his following and his portrayal by Melnikov-Pechersky

In the Trans-Volga forests on the river Kerzhenets, not far from Semyonov in the Nizhny Novgorod region, stands a cross over the grave of Hieromonk Sophonty, one of the most revered fathers of the Old Believers. Tradition names Sophonty as one of seven Solovetsky monks who fled the monastery

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Bronze cover of Salvador Dalí's “Book of the Apocalypse” stolen from museum in Issoire

A French museum has once again fallen victim to a brazen theft. On the night of Sunday, the cover of a book created by Salvador Dalí was stolen from a small private museum of modern art in the town of Issoire in central France. The cover weighs around 150 kilograms,

Black-and-white group photograph of people in masquerade costumes with fans and headdresses, some seated on a floor covered with confetti.

The Golden Age · NB! · Archive · Moscow · Mores

Guests at a costume party in a Moscow theatre in the early 20th century

A costume evening at one of the Moscow theatres in the early twentieth century

Black-and-white photograph of a street barber shaving a seated client while a man stands nearby smoking.

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Photographs by the Catalan Photographer Xavier Miserachs i Ribalta, 1937–1998

Photographs by the Catalan photographer Xavier Miserachs i Ribalta (1937-1998)

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Invitation to a 1893 betrothal ball and the betrothal rite in nineteenth-century Russia

An invitation to a ball and evening supper on the occasion of a betrothal, 10 January 1893. In nineteenth-century Russia the sgovor, or betrothal, was the rite at which the parents of the bride and groom finally agreed upon the marriage of their children. It followed the matchmaking, that

The Golden Age · Books · Moscow · Observations · Society

On the Subject of Moscow's Closed Bookshops

On the subject of Moscow's closed bookshops. Akademkniga on Vavilov Street did not survive the realities of life in the 2020s. Many will probably remember what a shock its closure was in 2019, later briefly interrupted by the shop's reopening. But in 2021, incidentally the Year