Faith · Art · Heritage · Society · Rome
The face of the Italian prime minister has been wiped from a fresco in a Roman church a few days after visitors recognised Giorgia Meloni in one of the cherubs. Urgent restoration was carried out on the orders of the church authorities. On Wednesday morning, visitors to the Roman basilica
Faith · The East · Heritage
The icon "Synaxis of the Holy Chinese Martyrs" glorifies the Orthodox Christians who suffered martyrdom during the Boxer Rebellion in Beijing in 1900. By the beginning of the twentieth century several hundred Orthodox Christians lived in Beijing, and almost all of them were killed in the course of
Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
The French Senate Approves a Bill Easing the Restitution of Cultural Property to Former Colonies. The country's museums hold no fewer than 90,000 artefacts removed from Africa during the period of the Second French Colonial Empire. Current French legislation complicates the return of these objects: each item
Architecture · Faith · Heritage
Two church ensembles in the Yaroslavl Region granted official heritage status and entered in the unified state register. The first is the Church of the Saviour the All-Merciful in the village of Spass on the left bank of the Volga, built at the very beginning of the 19th century.
Heritage · Science · Palaeontology · Nature
A fossilised ant has been found in amber from the collection of the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Its age is approximately 40 million years. The ant proved to be a representative of the extinct species Ctenobethylus goepperti. A black fly and a fungus gnat were also found in the
Archive · Faith · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
A barricade set up in the autumn of 1917 across Ostozhenka, by the Church of the Resurrection of the Word. In the bell tower of the church is a Bolshevik firing point. This is dreadful not only as a fact of civil war but as a symbol. A bell tower,
Archaeology · Architecture · Faith · London · Heritage
Lambeth Palace in London, for eight centuries the residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury, has been restored for the first time in 70 years. The £40 million reconstruction was devoted to the restoration and conservation of the building's historic elements. The palace serves as the archbishop's
Architecture · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg
A UNESCO World Heritage Centre mission has arrived in Saint Petersburg to inspect one of the largest sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the “Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg”. The previous visit of this kind took place in 2018. In Saint Petersburg a single site is under UNESCO protection:
Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Heritage
The tower of the monastery at which the first English expedition, led by Richard Chancellor, landed in the sixteenth century. The only wooden structure of the Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery to have survived to our day stands in Moscow, on the grounds of the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve. The monastery, at the
Museums · Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris
The string of absurd updates to the file on the disgraceful Louvre robbery seems destined never to end. New glaring details have come to light, but the chief detail remains unchanged: so far, we have not seen a single resignation. How about this? A month and a half before the
Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage
The celebrated church, revered throughout Belarus, stands within one of the oldest Orthodox monasteries of Eastern Europe, the Convent of Saint Euphrosyne of Polotsk (the Saviour-Euphrosyne Monastery) in Polotsk. The stone church was built at the behest of Euphrosyne of Polotsk on the site of a wooden church, according
Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
The Historical Museum Completes Restoration of Henryk Siemiradzki's Monumental Canvases "The Funeral Feast of Sviatoslav's Warriors after the Battle of Dorostolon" and "The Funeral of a Rus in Bulgar" The paintings were commissioned by the museum's founder, Count Uvarov, in