Architecture · Art · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The monument to Pushkin by the sculptor Leopold Bernstam was erected in the town of Pushkin, at the intersection of Oktyabrsky Boulevard, Dvortsovaya Street and Peterburgskoye Highway, in July 1938. During the Great Patriotic War, when the town was occupied by German troops, who destroyed and damaged many structures of
Art · Heritage · Society · Rome
Bernini's celebrated Roman sculpture "The Elephant and Obelisk" has been damaged again. The marble elephant, created in 1667 to a design by Bernini and executed by his pupil Ercole Ferrata, stands in the Piazza della Minerva beside the Pantheon. The elephant, bearing an ancient Egyptian obelisk
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Archive · Architecture · Faith · Books · Heritage · Mores
Do you remember the lines "A girl was singing in a church choir of all the weary in a foreign land"? In them Blok immortalised the Church of the Archangel Michael in the village of Tarakanovo. In his memoirs he writes of it as follows: Mendeleev and my
Faith · Observations · Heritage · Society
Bulgaria Puts Images of Orthodox Saints on the Obverses of Its National Euro Coins. The 2-euro coin depicts Saint Paisius of Hilendar, who lived in the 18th century, a key figure of the Bulgarian National Revival and the author of the Slavonic-Bulgarian History of the Bulgarian peoples and
Archaeology · Art · Madrid · Museums · Heritage · Paris
The masterpiece of Spanish antiquity remained in France until 1941, when Spain exchanged it, under a special programme, for several dozen other works of art and items of jewellery. The sculpture dates from the 4th century BC. Franco ordered the Lady of Elche to be displayed in the Prado National
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The house in Odessa where Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin lived. The Hotel du Nord stood here, and Pushkin stayed in it for a month in the summer of 1823. The street was then called Italianskaya; in 1880 it was renamed Pushkinskaya. In 1959 a Literary Memorial Museum was opened here
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Yury Sadovnikov
Archive · Faith · The East · Heritage
The Greatest Robbery of All Time. So wrote the German Benedictine chronicler Otto of St Blasien of the sack of Constantinople by the Latins in 1204. He describes how the sack of Constantinople sent enormous Greek riches, above all the sacred treasures of the Cathedral of Saint Sophia and countless
Monarchies · Museums · Heritage · Paris
The Louvre announces a tender for the restoration of Empress Eugénie's crown, dropped by the robbers as they fled the scene of the crime. The crown, set with diamonds and emeralds, was deformed, lost part of its decorative elements and one of its golden eagles. According to the
Books · Heritage · Society · Paris
A brief review of last month's publications. We spoke chiefly of the topical and the pressing, naturally without neglecting the link with the past, which, of course, explains a great deal. And so, the digest for January. 📌 What the Mona Lisa owes its popularity to. The story of
Archive · Books · Heritage · Rome
It was with a heavy heart that I learned that Rome had been bombed. Yet this was news I had been expecting for several months. Can there really be so many military objectives in Rome? I did not remember it so. Perhaps the railway station is of the utmost importance