NB! · Coming Up · Heritage
From 8 July, a retro sightseeing trolleybus will run around the historic districts of Vladimir every Saturday. The route begins at Station Square, with departures at 10:30 and 12:30. A full-price ticket costs 450 roubles.
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage
The most beautiful fence in Moscow is not the Kremlin wall but the railing of the Demidov estate in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane. And although this eighteenth-century estate was owned by various families, it is called Demidov's precisely because of its outstanding railing, cast at the Demidov works.
Archaeology · Heritage · Nature · Rome
Caesar defeated Pompey, and Caesar's partisans disgracefully deprived Pompey of his life. Caesar himself was murdered in an assembly hall attached to the largest of Rome's theatres, the one named after Pompey. And the place survives to this day. The ruins of the so-called Curia
Heritage · Mores · Society · Rome
Italian authorities will punish a man who scratched his sweetheart's name on the wall of the Colosseum. The Minister of Culture has already expressed his concern (and how could he not!). It is strange that the vandal was not detained at the scene of the crime, given the
Archive · Faith · Monarchies · Heritage
Private Ivan Babcock of the US Army tries on the crown of Charlemagne in a cave at Siegen, Germany, 3 April 1945. The chamber deep inside the mountain at Siegen was filled with treasures, from the golden reliquary holding the relics of Charlemagne and the Cross of Lothair to paintings
Architecture · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
In 1933 a unique automated bakery was built in Leningrad, in which the bread-making cycle was automated to the greatest possible degree. The conveyor line was arranged in rings set on different floors of the building. Flour was delivered to the very top, where the sourdough department was situated.
Art · Museums · Heritage
The artist's signature is not easily found on the painting; it is hidden in the decoration of the pot. The canvas was bought in an antique shop in the 1950s as the work of an unknown artist, but the buyer, the art historian Felix Vishnevsky, discovered the concealed
NB! · Architecture · Monarchies · Observations · Heritage · Society
The Lenin monument in Kostroma, erected on the pedestal of the monument to the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov. One might say that this monument reflects three milestones of Russian history: the Tsarist, the Soviet and the present day, to which the monument owes the gaping holes in
Faith · Heritage · Society
For almost 500 years now, three iron cages, each weighing two hundred kilograms, have hung from the bell tower of St Lambert's Church in Germany. In them the bodies of the executed leaders of the Münster Rebellion of 1534-1535 were put on public display. The Anabaptist uprising,
Architecture · Faith · London · Observations · Heritage
In England, the problem of preserving an abandoned church has been solved in its own way: a swimming pool and a gym have opened inside a Victorian church. Repton Park in Redbridge is considered one of the most beautiful swimming pools in London. In 1892 the site was occupied by
NB! · Architecture · Art · Moscow · Heritage
Charming painted decoration in the summerhouse at Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire. Especially the cat, peering down like a deity from the summit of the ceiling. Such paintings were to be found in many wealthy houses of the 19th century and earlier. In Moscow they survive in the Stanislavsky house, and
Archive · Architecture · Heritage
The Moss Tower of the Sumsky Ostrog is one of the few surviving wooden defensive structures of the 16th century in Europe. The Sumsky Ostrog on the White Sea consisted of six hexagonal towers and protected the lands of the Solovetsky Monastery from the Swedes. The Moss Tower is 19