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On 31 August 1941, in evacuation at Yelabuga, Marina Tsvetaeva took her own life. That day her son Mur and the mistress of the house were sent off to clear a site for an airfield; she was left alone and hanged herself in the entrance passage. In the kitchen a
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Where did Rodchenko and Stepanova live in Moscow? E. L.: At first they made do in other people's flats, in tiny rooms. They lived in a house belonging to the family of Vasily Kandinsky, at 8 Dolgy Lane (now Burdenko Street), in flat 25, while Kandinsky spent almost
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Two men bought tickets to the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, walked up to a display case and smashed the protective glass with a hammer. They pulled out a diamond necklace and vanished in an unknown direction. They made no attempt to hide their faces, so the surveillance cameras
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Fifty-nine objects, ten kilograms of gold and almost seven hundred grams of silver, which lay in the bed of a dried-up river near Alicante from the thirteenth century BC until December 1963, when the archaeologist José María Soler found them, survived three thousand three hundred years, a civil
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The collision arises from a lawsuit brought by the Democrat Joyce Beatty against the attachment of Trump's name to the building. In May 2026 a court had already ordered that name removed from the title "Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing
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One article tells how the village of Sgaang Gwaay Llnagaay, which was emptied in the 1880s by epidemics, still has more than thirty ceremonial poles with figures of bears and killer whales, carved from cedar in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The poles marked families and served as memorials to
Art · Museums · Heritage · New York
In February 1961, the loss of Picasso's Femme dans un fauteuil of 1918 was discovered at the student union building of the University of Pittsburgh. Painted by Picasso on his honeymoon with Olga Khokhlova near Biarritz, the picture had been lent to the university by the Guggenheim Museum
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In August 1939, Jacques Jaujard, Director of the French National Museums, carried out the largest and most secret operation to save the world's art. A few days before the outbreak of the Second World War, the Louvre was suddenly closed to the public on the pretext of routine
Archive · Architecture · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The Hall of the Muses in the Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum in 1947. Oranienbaum was the only one of the suburban residences of Saint Petersburg that did not fall under occupation during the Great Patriotic War. The Germans were stopped on the approaches to the town in September 1941, and
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In October 1944 the head of the Ancient East department of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts submitted an official memorandum to the museum's director about a business trip to the town of Sukhoy Log in the Sverdlovsk region. Vsevolod Pavlov, a specialist in Ancient Egypt who had
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