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Windsor family photographs on the drawing room piano, four generations and the Danish sisters
A few days ago King Charles III met the acting Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, at Sandringham House. Let us try to examine the furnishings of the drawing room in which such meetings take place. On the piano stands a row of family photographs. King George V and Queen
Museums · Mores · Paris · Pop Culture
Wedding dress of Balzac’s era at the “Lost Illusions” exhibition, Palais Galliera
A Wedding Dress of 1834. Silk fabric with floral decoration and a satin ground. Palais Galliera, Museum of Fashion of the City of Paris. Gift of the Countess de Castries. The dress is shown at the exhibition "Lost Illusions" as a typical wedding dress of the period, in
Archive · Books · Mores · Ethnography
Fourteen old blini recipes with explanations of words no longer in use
Pancakes from Elena Molokhovets's Legendary Cookery Book "A Gift to Young Housewives" Fourteen key old recipes for pancakes: buckwheat blini, buckwheat blini made half and half with wheat flour, plain wheat blini, buckwheat blini with eggs, Lenten buckwheat blini, "amateur" blini, red blini, milk
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Sarah Bernhardt at Thirty, in Her Coffin
She is not dead. Merely asleep. Or rather, posing for a photograph in the character of a woman lying in a coffin. She died, after all, at 78. Until then she simply liked to lie in a coffin. And she had one installed at home as a bed. A fool
Art · Museums · Observations · Mores
The "Russian Incredible" exhibition has many paintings before which one stops with a lungful of air
But the painting "Aunt Sasha" by David Petrovich Shterenberg simply will not let go. From the collection of the State Russian Museum. 1922-1923. The Civil War has only just ended. Before us sits a Russian village woman in a cornflower-blue headscarf and blouse. She is no
Architecture · Heritage · Mores · Paris
The Le Train Bleu restaurant at the Gare de Lyon in Paris, a historic monument
The popular French restaurant Le Train Bleu, at the Gare de Lyon in Paris, is officially classed as a historic monument. The refined establishment takes its name from the famous luxury passenger train that ran to the French Riviera. But at the outset it was simply a buffet, the lavish
Faith · Mores · Education · People
Talleyrand's childhood injury, which sent him to seminary instead of military service
The Shoes of the Devil upon Two Sticks, and Louis-Philippe Supporting a Barely Upright Talleyrand. As you can see, old Talleyrand, author of the remark "Whole nations would be horrified if they knew what petty men rule over them", is wearing the orthopaedic footwear of his age.
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The age gap of Henry II and Diane de Poitiers compared with the Macrons
Diane de Poitiers, favourite of the French King Henry II, was twenty years his senior. Just imagine how conspicuous such a difference was by the standards of the sixteenth century! She also outlived him by seven years. By all accounts, the delightful wife of the French President Macron, Brigitte, is
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Once, Without Any Warning, Mandelstam Turned Up at the Merezhkovskys'
Once, without any warning, Mandelstam turned up at the Merezhkovskys'. Zinaida Gippius came out to him and said that if he wrote good poetry, she would be informed of it; then she would talk to him, but for the time being there was no point, since nothing ever came
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Thomas Mann and His Poodle Niko
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