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1954: village cows grazing in Moscow's Cheryomushki district
Photo by Lev Borodulin
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A Painting by Peter Paul Rubens Plunges the Viewer into the Dramatic History of the Ancient East
A painting by Peter Paul Rubens plunges the viewer into the dramatic history of the Ancient East. The subject is taken from the life of Queen Artemisia, who ruled Caria in the fourth century BC. This realm lay on the territory of present-day Turkey and formed part of the
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Interior view of the changing cubicles at the Yegorov Baths in Saint Petersburg, 1907
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Easter Festivities in the Army, 1914-1918
Books · Mores · Humour
You must have decent, well-dressed children, and your children must in their turn have a good flat and children, and their children too must have children and good flats, and what it is all for, the devil only knows
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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On 9 June 1994 the British channel ITV broadcast a documentary by the journalist Jonathan Dimbleby in which Prince Charles, now King Charles III, admitted to adultery
On 9 June 1994 the British channel ITV broadcast a documentary by the journalist Jonathan Dimbleby in which Prince Charles, now King Charles III, admitted to adultery. By then Charles and Diana had already been living apart for a year and a half. That same evening Princess Diana arrived at
Art · Books · Mores · New York
In Marcel Duchamp's last work, Étant donnés, made in secret between 1946 and 1966, a naked woman lies sprawled in a field
In Marcel Duchamp's last work, Étant donnés, made in secret between 1946 and 1966, a naked woman lies sprawled in a field. According to Francis Naumann, the leading Duchamp specialist, the figure was modelled on the Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins. In his book published in 2026, Impossible: The
Observations · Mores · Humour
How right he is!
I no longer know what words to use to explain to my acquaintances, and mostly to people I barely know, that I would rather not embrace and kiss in place of an ordinary greeting; each time it is an awkward situation
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Summoning sorcerers to work spells to a man's harm is equated by the Nomocanon with murder
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On the Feast of the Apple Saviour we not only have the fruit blessed in church and prepare treats from apples, but also do charitable deeds
On the Feast of the Apple Saviour we not only have the fruit blessed in church and prepare treats from apples, but also do charitable deeds. In keeping with old Russian tradition
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A caravan of Soviet tourists makes its way to the pyramids
A caravan of Soviet tourists makes its way to the pyramids. Cairo, 1958
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A Muscovite Woman Choosing a Birch Broom at the Central Market in 1958
The Central Moscow Market stood at 15 Tsvetnoy Boulevard and at that time still operated out of wooden pavilions, before the construction of the city's first permanent covered market building. The multi-storey market was built to a design by the architect Shulmeister in 1959, although the wooden