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Aeschylus's "The Persians" at the National Greek Theatre in 1934. One of the last works of the director Fotos Politis (1890–1934). On stage: Ioannis Avlonitis, Georgios Glinos, Tsavalas Karousos. The founding of the National Theatre in the spring of 1930 was of great significance for
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
The double-headed eagles soared above the Moscow Kremlin for a very long time: until October 1935. It turns out that they witnessed not only the shelling of the Kremlin by artillery, the first parades in honour of the revolution, Lenin's speeches and Party mobilisations, but also the
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Kizhi. The Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in the snow. In front of the church, an Antonov An-2 aeroplane. Photo by Alexander Steshanov
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Court Reopens 2017 Case in Which More Than 20 Stolen Works of Art, Including Seven by Picasso, Were Seized from a House in a Suburb of Nice. The police officers acted undercover, passing themselves off as a Swiss buyer and his assistant. The operation was prompted by information received from
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A restorer at work in the Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve in 1984. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich
Faith · Art · Heritage · Paris
A Sword Stolen from the Statue of Joan of Arc in Front of the Church of Saint-Augustin in Paris. The shocking act of vandalism went roughly as follows: a man climbed onto the sculpture of Joan of Arc and damaged the statue of France's national heroine by
Faith · The East · Heritage
The Russian Monastery of the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon on the Holy Mountain of Athos, otherwise known as the Rossikon. One of the novices of this monastery was the peasant Filipp Malyavin, who served here as an icon painter. The history of the monastery goes back to a Russian
Art · Museums · Heritage · Paris
In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" was stolen from the Louvre. The robbery was executed with an almost caricatured simplicity. A museum employee, Vincenzo Peruggia, hid in a storeroom until closing time. With the help of two accomplices, he removed the glass case from the
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Cecilia Giménez Zueco has died at the age of 94. She became famous in 2012 for her amateur restoration of the fresco Ecce Homo, painted in 1930 by Elías García Martínez. When a fresco in the Sanctuary of Mercy in the small Spanish town of Borja, in the province of
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The Hermitage has completed the restoration of Rembrandt's "The Sacrifice of Abraham". The results of the work, which lasted four years, are presented at a temporary exhibition in the Apollo Hall of the Winter Palace. Specialists removed layers of yellowed varnish and later overpainting which for
Heritage · Society · Rome · Ethnography
From 1 February, entry to the square in front of the Trevi Fountain will cost $2.35. No more than 400 people will be allowed on the square at any one time. These measures are intended to reduce the excessive pressure of tourism on the landmark. Today the fountain receives