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A protected zone has been established around the Mamontov dacha in the Moscow Region. The Mamontovs were the first builders of dachas along the Yaroslavl line. At the turn of the 1850s and 1860s, Mikhail Nikolayevich Mamontov built a two-storey dacha on a plot of leased land in the
Monarchies · Observations · Mores · Society
The King of Britain has met the oldest of his subjects, 116-year-old Ethel Caterham. I sometimes remark on this gesture of British rulers: attention and respect towards the elderly, with special meetings for veterans, visits to the long-lived, and congratulatory messages. Much of this exists in our
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Let us return briefly to the theme of Marina Tsvetaeva and the pink dress, which appears in her poems for good reason. The dress also caught the attention of Ekaterina Gorpinko, who examined the history of Tsvetaeva's "pink dress" in greater detail for her book "
Art · Mores
Late medieval custom held that rings were not to be worn over gloves; instead, one was advised to wear special perforated gloves, through which the jewellery could be seen. Gloves of just this perforated kind appear, in particular, in the paintings of Lucas Cranach the Elder.
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In 1919 Marina Tsvetaeva wrote the poem "To You, in a Hundred Years", addressed to an admirer from the distant future. Piercing yet lyrical, sad yet spirited. "Friend! Do not seek me! Fashions are other now. Not even the old folk remember me." In this unusual
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While Moscow plunges into the raging art scene, Saint Petersburg calmly opens the autumn social season. And in the history of Petersburg, as you know, the society dinner was always more than a mere taking of nourishment: it was a form of conversation, a platform for ideas and a place
Mores · Society · Ethnography
A working group at the Ministry of Industry and Trade will draw up a list of more than 250 dishes to be included in the standard of Russian cuisine, RBC reports. The standard is being developed to promote the national cuisine, popularise Russian dishes and secure their status in law.
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Pieter Dirksz, also known as "Longbeard", was a shipwright who earned extra money touring the fairs as one of the attractions. The takings from "viewings" of his beard he donated to the Edam orphanage, which commemorated him as its benefactor in a portrait at the end
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Andropov's flat at 26 Kutuzovsky Prospekt. The photographs were taken in 1984, after the General Secretary's death. A luxury interior from an era when the profession of interior designer, to all appearances, did not exist in the country
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After the publication of Yusupov's memoirs about the murder of Rasputin, Maria brought a suit against Felix Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitry Romanov, demanding monetary compensation for the moral damage caused, but the claim was dismissed, since under French law the court did not consider it possible to
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One of my strongest childhood memories is the winter walk to kindergarten. A blizzard outside, for some reason always, and the sun not yet up. The cold does not pierce you, it merely pinches your cheeks. Mother and I crunch through the snowdrifts. I am dressed like Napoleon in Russia.
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Why do parents send their <children> away from home to the gymnasium? It suddenly became clear to me. If parents kept their <children> at home, they would see the consequences of their own immoral life in their children. Leo Tolstoy