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Chukovsky's house in Peredelkino, the 1982 eviction ruling against his family and the 1994 museum
In this modest house in Peredelkino, at 3 Serafimovich Street, Chukovsky lived from 1938 to 1969. A few years after Chukovsky's death, in 1974, Lydia Korneyevna was expelled from the Writers' Union, and the Litfond decided to evict the family from the dacha. Legal wrangling dragged on
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Chukovsky's library for children, built in the 1930s on land from Shchipachev
The desk in Chukovsky's library, which he built in the 1930s at his own expense on a neighbouring plot: a few hundredths of a hectare were given to him by the poet Stepan Petrovich Shchipachev (1898-1980). Chukovsky's personal library for children began with 400 volumes
Aristocracy · Faith · Art · Heritage
Ligier Richier's tomb of René de Chalon as a decaying skeleton in Bar-le-Duc
Perhaps one of the most extravagant monuments of the French Renaissance: the tomb of René de Chalon, Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland, who died in 1544. It is not entirely clear whether the 25-year-old René himself left instructions for a rotting tomb to be
Archaeology · Museums · Heritage
Golden wreath of 315 BC found during construction of the Thessaloniki metro
A golden wreath tied with a Heraclean knot, which is rather unreliable at home and at sea. Found in a Macedonian tomb. The diadem is in splendid condition, and although it dates from 315 BC, it is one of 300,000 finds from 5,000 burials excavated during the construction
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The Old Synagogue of San Francisco on Sutter Street, before and after its destruction
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One of the Treasures of Notre-Dame de Paris, the Marvellous Madonna and Child, a Fourteenth-Century Sculpture, Safe and Sound
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Relics, artworks, bells and rose windows of Notre-Dame during the fire
The fate of many of Notre-Dame's treasures remains unknown. A piece of the Holy Cross and the holy nails A fragment of the Cross on which Jesus was crucified, and one of the nails from the Crucifixion. A painting of Thomas Aquinas A canvas of the seventeenth
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Yesterday afternoon the French Minister of Culture tweeted photographs of some of the valuable objects kept in the Cathedral being removed for the duration of the repairs
Yesterday afternoon the French Minister of Culture tweeted photographs of some of the valuable objects kept in the Cathedral being removed for the duration of the repairs. The tweet was posted at 14:41, five hours before the fire
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
So, what became of the treasures of Notre-Dame de Paris?
So, what became of the treasures of Notre-Dame de Paris? What has survived? The Holy Crown of Thorns It came to France as a gift to Louis IX in 1238. The Crown of Thorns, with several thorns removed (and dispatched to various corners of the world), is kept in
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Soissons Cathedral after restoration, with one tower as since the 14th century
This is how the Soissons Cathedral, restored after its destruction, looks today. Yes, with a single tower: that is how it had stood since the fourteenth century, the second tower simply never being completed.
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Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais, or Soissons Cathedral: one of the largest Gothic cathedrals of France, comparable in size to Notre-Dame de Paris and the cathedrals of Reims and Amiens
116 metres in length, against 130 for Notre-Dame de Paris; height under the vault of the choir: 31, against 33.5 for Notre-Dame; height of the tower: 66, against 69. The church was wholly destroyed during the First World War; in 1914 it literally lay in ruins. The