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But Christmas is surely not about inclusivity, nor about the brotherhood of foreign creeds, nor about any Oriental rites or political truisms. Christmas is the feast of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. Let me remind you that, under English legal requirements, the King of England must be a
Archive · Books · Monarchies · Science · Saint Petersburg
One of the earliest depictions of the Russian tricolour appears in a Dutch book on shipbuilding and flags of the late seventeenth century, where it is captioned as the Flag of His Tsarist Majesty of Muscovy. The book, «The New Dutch Shipbuilding», which contains essential information on the building of
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From Karamzin's spiritual ode «To Mercy», addressed to Catherine II. A good thought, and a sound one: so long as the contented citizen may sleep without fear, and children, free subjects, may order their lives by their own thoughts, so long as Thou grantest freedom to all and
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There is a parable. Harun al-Rashid liked to wander about at night. One evening he strayed into a dark hovel in which an elderly woman was offering up a prayer for his health. “How pleasant!” he said. “How shall I reward you?” “You see, you are a good deal
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What, in essence, are we looking at? Nicholas II, in signing his abdication, acted under the influence of swindlers and did not grasp the consequences of his actions
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She was, incidentally, 24 then. Now she is 43. But this is only the beginning
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Sotheby's is to offer a boudoir chair made for Marie Antoinette by Georges Jacob. A magnificent piece of work and, above all, astonishingly untouched by time
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In short, nothing new. A piece on Russo-German relations, a sort of Telegram-channel analytics of 1872. They keep mulling over the future after the death of Alexander II, although he has another nine years allotted to him, and, as usual, they threaten to cut our dear little Russia
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Once more, then: the Marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV and mother of seven of his children, in the guise of the Old Testament heroine Judith, the young widow who saved besieged Judea by cutting off the head of Nebuchadnezzar's seduced general Holofernes while he slept. A