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Viking double burials and the hypothesis of the woman’s sacrificial role
Remember the news about the skeletons holding hands that turned out to be the remains of two men? When it comes to Viking paired burials, such as those in these illustrations, there is a hypothesis far removed from the silly formula of "they lived happily ever after and died
Archaeology · Art · Museums · Mores · Ethnography
Etruscan paired funerary urn of the 500s BC and the place of women at the banquet
One of many paired Etruscan funerary urns, 500s BC. It is generally held that the spouses depicted are sharing a meal. The wife may be passing her husband an aromatic liquid, perfume or oil, while in her left hand she holds a pomegranate, the symbol of immortality. Hm. Two on
Archive · Art · Moscow · Mores
Correspondence between Shchukin and Matisse on the panels “Dance” and “Music” for a staircase
The Russians bought so much Matisse that admirers and friends even asked him whether his pictures would soon be visible only in Moscow. Shchukin commissioned Dance as a large panel for a staircase landing, together with a second large canvas, Music. A touching correspondence passed between patron and painter: on
Aristocracy · Art · Observations · Mores
Do you know what is curious?
Do you know what is curious? The daughters of Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin by different women, Ekaterina and Irina, were both married to Counts Keller. The elder married the bibliophile Mikhail Pavlovich, and the younger his nephew, and from that marriage was born André-Marc Delocque-Fourcaud, one of the organisers
Monarchies · Mores · People · Humour
The 1876 diagnosis of Alexander II and his affair with Ekaterina Dolgorukaya
In 1876, Alexander II was diagnosed with "exhaustion caused by excesses in sexual relations". And of course, what was meant was his relationship with his mistress Ekaterina Dolgorukaya: the passionate affair lasted 14 years, and it was provoked by the fact that, after the birth of eight children,
Archaeology · Museums · Mores
Roman amphora from southern Spain labelled as holding young tuna aged two years
This is what a tin can looked like in Ancient Rome. This clay amphora of AD 70-100, for instance, states that it contains young tuna, matured for two years. The amphora is known to have been packed in the south of Spain. What sort of fish is matured for
Moscow · Observations · Mores · Society
On the way to the dacha I was told an interesting theory as to why the Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway has not been resurfaced for the last 15 years and is still in perfect condition
On the way to the dacha I was told an interesting theory as to why the Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway has not been resurfaced for the last 15 years and is still in perfect condition. Suslov, it seems, had a bad back and could travel only at 50 km/h, and
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Colleen Moore's dollhouse palace and its tour during the Great Depression
The most expensive dolls' house in history is held to be a 2.5-metre fairy-tale palace commissioned by the silent film star Colleen Moore from leading Hollywood designers and architects. The palace is adorned with semi-precious and precious stones, even diamonds, with gold, and with fantastical
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
Aristocracy · Art · Mores · People · Humour
Count Hartig with his wife Eleonora as Roman Charity in a painting by Barbara Krafft
An unequal match, you say? The President of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences, friend of Emperor Joseph II, seasoned diplomat, civil servant, and man of letters and poet of acknowledged standing in Europe, Franz de Paula Anton Count von Hartig (1758-1797), is suckled at the breast of his
Aristocracy · Heritage · Mores
Wheeled library armchair of Prince Nikolay Borisovich Yusupov made by his serfs
The working chair of Prince Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov, made by his serfs. Nikolai Borisych loved rarities and everything he had spotted on his many journeys (he visited the courts of numerous monarchs and counted Voltaire and Saint-Germain among his friends), and he would bring these things home and try