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Public Servants at the Palm Sunday Celebrations, Moscow, 1654
Public Servants at the Palm Sunday Celebrations, Moscow, 1654. Unknown artist
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Akyn Jambul became famous in 1936 after the decade of Kazakh art in Moscow
The Kazakh poet Dzhambul won fame very late: he became known only in 1936, when he was already very old. It cannot be said that nothing had been heard of him before. Dzhambul Dzhabayev was surrounded by a large family and was, by all accounts, a distinguished akyn, the victor
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The reliquary of Mary of Egypt recalled the "Saint Louis" exhibition in the Patriarch's Palace of the Moscow Kremlin, to which a glass casket from the Crown of Thorns was brought, but without the Crown, that is, simply an empty bit of glass
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Yasumasa Morimura makes photographic self-portraits, reflecting on the history of art and transforming himself into Da Vinci, Van Eyck, Frida Kahlo and Vermeer
Yasumasa Morimura makes photographic self-portraits, reflecting on the history of art and transforming himself into Da Vinci, Van Eyck, Frida Kahlo and Vermeer. I have been to his exhibition at the Pushkin Museum, and tomorrow I shall go again
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Bird-shaped carnival sleigh from the collection of the Historical Museum
A carnival sleigh from the State Historical Museum. Style!
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Wikipedia reports that a Moscow law of 1997
Wikipedia reports that a Moscow law of 1997 (in force until 2002) prohibited the distribution and display of images of fasces as Nazi symbolism. But on the coat of arms of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation, the fasces look rather well
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Symbols in a Vermeer painting and a video report on a Moscow woman who pinned a snake with a dustpan
In Vermeer's painting, the woman's gaze is turned to a scene of the Crucifixion, with John the Evangelist embodying wisdom. She holds her hand to her heart, which attests to her longing for God. She props up a terrestrial globe with her foot, which shows that
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The Canopy over the Shrine of Metropolitan Peter
The canopy over the shrine of Metropolitan Peter. Russia, 1819. Dormition Cathedral, Moscow Kremlin
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Yaroslavsky Station, 1930s
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Dear colleagues, this announcement concerns all of us and the staff of our friendly institutes, especially those located on Vavilov, Lyapunov and Fotiyeva Streets and on Leninsky Prospekt
Dear colleagues, this announcement concerns all of us and the staff of our friendly institutes, especially those located on Vavilov, Lyapunov and Fotiyeva Streets and on Leninsky Prospekt
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In the Fifteenth Century, Strangely Enough, It Was the Priests Who Were Active Public Figures
In the fifteenth century, strangely enough, it was the priests who were active public figures. And after the annexation of Novgorod to Moscow in 1478, Ivan III began to persecute those Novgorod priests who held an active public position. But, understanding the importance of men of this type in the
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5 December 1931
5 December 1931. The writer Korney Chukovsky recorded in his diary: "A sunny, frosty day, with silver smoke and a blue sky. Tram No. 10 took me not to the Stone Bridge but to the Zamoskvoretsky one, since they are blowing up the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour nearby.