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Well, the Cosmoscow opening was a success
Well, the Cosmoscow opening was a success. There are plenty of splendid things, but their prices are more splendid still
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NB! · London · Museums · Observations · Palaeontology · Humour
Miniature mammoth from the Natural History Museum in London
Good heavens, I am in love! Just look at this tiny mammoth from the Natural History Museum in London 😍😍
Art · London · Observations · Nature · Humour
Trump the pug, William Hogarth's dog, and how 18th-century pugs differed from modern ones
Trump the pug, dog of William Hogarth. The finest Trump I have ever had occasion to see. Incidentally, how different the pugs of the eighteenth century were from their modern descendants: their legs were longer and their bodies slimmer. And wigs suited them far better, too.
Books · Observations · Humour
Book wheel for working with documents from 1580 and its use in libraries
A Contraption for When You Have Been Set Far Too Much Homework. Friends are busily sharing a photograph of a device for working with documents dating from as far back as 1580. Something similar can be found in many libraries, and not only in antique versions either: it is a
Faith · Art · Museums · Humour
Preposterous and Charming Wooden Lions of the Seventeenth Century from the Church of Elijah the Prophet in Yaroslavl
They are kept in the White Chamber of the Rostov Kremlin, which houses the delightful display of the Museum of Church Antiquities, which has existed since 1883. These sculptures in the round adorned the bases of the prayer places built for Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich and Patriarch Nikon on the model
NB! · Books · Observations · Humour
Don't even think of inviting me if your book party doesn't look like the gathering in this cupboard
Don't even think of inviting me if your book party doesn't look like the gathering in this cupboard. First shelf: the collected works of Charles Darwin. Third shelf: the Halych Gospels of 1144. Mind blown
Moscow · Observations · Mores · Humour
⚡️1 KILOGRAMME OF STURGEON CAVIAR!!!
⚡️1 KILOGRAMME OF STURGEON CAVIAR!!! Have you ever seen the like? A menu fit to be served in the hereafter to Major General Pavel Afanasyevich Afrosimov. Sorry that this post is not quite on the channel's theme, it is just that I have not seen anything so astonishing
Books · Observations · Humour
Author receives first fee for a lecture on Odysseus in wine and whisky from venue owner
Yesterday I received, for the first time in my life, a fee for a public appearance. In the form of a bottle of wine and a bottle of whisky, admittedly. I shall not hide that it was unexpected and very pleasant that the proprietor of the establishment, seated at the
Observations · Humour
Subscriber clarifies that Lavinia in the portrait plays a virginal, not a spinet
I love you, dear subscribers! And it is pleasant to know that there are such specialists among you. On the post about Lavinia And what a name, the virginal! Pure poetry!
NB! · Art · People · Humour
Isabella Ruini as Venus likewise does not shy from an age gap with Cupid
Isabella Ruini as Venus likewise does not shy from an age gap with Cupid. A work by Lavinia Fontana
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- Are you quite sure our difference in age doesn't trouble you?
- Oh, come now
NB! · Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Humour
When next I wax rapturous over the gardens and parks of the Moscow-region country estates, please remind me what the garden and kitchen garden of the Château de Villandry look like, for instance
When next I wax rapturous over the gardens and parks of the Moscow-region country estates, please remind me what the garden and kitchen garden of the Château de Villandry look like, for instance. And do remind me, while you are at it, to light a candle so that Russia