Coming Up · Monarchies · Museums
Tickets go on general sale from 12 March, but they are far from cheap: £71 if bought in advance, or £75 on the day of the visit
NB! · London · Monarchies · Society · Humour
The Soviet AToS-1 special communications set, otherwise known as the "vertushka", in the private apartments of Elizabeth II. The cryptographic information-protection equipment is, in all likelihood, built into the walnut secretaire
NB! · Archive · Monarchies
Monarchies · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris
A few days ago at the Louvre, a portrait of the loathsome Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, stripped of his title of Prince, was stuck to a wall. The news calls the people who did it activists. Naturally, they have some political or moral justification for their demonstration. In principle, after all,
Books · Monarchies · Society · Humour
Our men of ill repute... judge themselves and pardon themselves Ivan the Terrible, in his letter to Prince Kurbsky and in his epistle to Archbishop Pimen of Novgorod, 1570s
Monarchies · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris
The worst director in the Louvre's history replaced by Christophe Leribault, formerly president of the Palace of Versailles. French President Emmanuel Macron announced the appointment of the 63-year-old Leribault at a meeting of the Council of Ministers. Leribault is an art historian who has previously worked
Archive · London · Monarchies · Heritage
The oldest known photograph of London was taken in 1839. It shows the equestrian statue of Charles I near Charing Cross station This is the oldest bronze statue in London. It rises on a traffic island where Trafalgar Square meets Whitehall. The spot is officially called the “centre of London”
Archive · Monarchies · Saint Petersburg
Nicholas II's Half-Track Packard 3-38 of 1915. The photograph was taken in February 1917 in front of the Shuvalov Palace on Italyanskaya Street; by that time the Tsar's motor car had already been requisitioned and handed over to the Military Motor-Car School
Faith · Monarchies · Observations · Society · Humour
She who lives to eat and is mad for sweetmeats, whose only pleasure is her belly and her throat, who stuffs her cheeks and her paunch, a gluttonous queen, grows fat herself and makes her husband's purse lean. The main thing is not to become like the Queen
Aristocracy · Archive · Faith · London · Monarchies
According to this genealogical construction, the English royal family, namely Elizabeth II and her descendants, trace their origin to the progenitor of the 12 Tribes of Israel, the third Old Testament patriarch Jacob, called Israel. What is more, Elizabeth is a descendant of Jacob-Israel and his son Judah not
Faith · Books · Monarchies · Observations
On Pharaoh's Cart. At the very beginning of the eighteenth century, Metropolitan Stefan Yavorsky, in his sermons, likens the Russian state, "our most glorious monarchy", to the chariot of Ezekiel. The comparison is most interesting, and not only because the chariot, which by design ought to
Coming Up · The East · Monarchies · Moscow · Museums
The exhibition “Descendants of Genghis Khan. Rus and the World” opens on 20 March. The display will include objects that tell of the legacy of the Mongol Empire and the Golden Horde, of Russo-Tatar ties and mutual cultural influence, of dynastic marriages and court ceremonial