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During the brief but most brutal Nazi occupation of the Moscow region, a great many museums and churches came under attack
During the brief but most brutal Nazi occupation of the Moscow region, a great many museums and churches came under attack. People of science and art threw all their strength into saving the treasures of culture: very many collections simply could not be evacuated in time, and their fate had
Monarchies · Museums · Heritage · Paris
The cultural institutions of France have held sales of valuables before: recall the sale of the crown jewels in 1887
The cultural institutions of France have held sales of valuables before: recall the sale of the crown jewels in 1887. At the same time the state disposed of a great deal of truly valuable palace furniture on the pretext that it held no historical interest. Historians look with horror on
Museums · Mores · Humour
An American in the early 20th century made himself jaws with coyote teeth from toothbrushes
In the early twentieth century a poor but resourceful American had no teeth, so he melted down two toothbrushes, shaped the plastic as required and made himself a new set of jaws with coyote teeth. When, in the 1940s, a professional dentist heard the inventor's story, he offered
Architecture · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris
Christo's project to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is postponed to 2021
It has been announced that the artist Christo Javacheff's grandiose project to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is postponed from this autumn to 2021. The married duo of pioneering artists, Christo and Jeanne-Claude (who died in 2009), who won worldwide fame for their art projects
Museums · Pop Culture · Humour
Bear with a mechanism in the toy museum of the historic village of Penshurst in Kent
Just don't tell me this is not the most splendid bear you have ever seen. Paddington is not fit to hold a candle to him. This hard-drinking teddy lives in a toy museum in the English historic village of Penshurst, in the county of Kent, once owned
Architecture · Monarchies · Museums · Heritage · Paris
The Petit Trianon, built by Louis XV, blossomed under Louis XVI, when the palace passed into the ownership of Marie Antoinette, who made its interiors, poised between rococo and neoclassicism, her private retreat, where one could come only by her invitati
The Petit Trianon, built by Louis XV, blossomed under Louis XVI, when the palace passed into the ownership of Marie Antoinette, who made its interiors, poised in style between rococo and neoclassicism, her private retreat, where one could come only by her invitation. After the Revolution the palace was abandoned
NB! · Aristocracy · Art · Museums · People · Saint Petersburg
The beauty Elizaveta Borisovna Shakhovskaya
The beauty Elizaveta Borisovna Shakhovskaya. One of her portraits is held in the Louvre, and two more in the Hermitage: this one, by Jean-Laurent Mosnier, and a second, a miniature by Augustin Ritt.
NB! · Archaeology · The East · Museums · Society
Marble relief of 200 AD from Izmir showing shackled slaves and a guard
Roman slaves shackled in iron collars. The stripped and barefoot men are escorted by an armoured guard. In all likelihood, they are being led to the arena, where they will die. Marble relief, AD 200. Izmir, Turkey.
Cinema · Museums · Observations
At the centre of "The Weekdays and Holidays of Serafima Glukina" stands a lonely grown woman, Serafima, played by Alisa Freindlich, a museum employee, for those times somewhat not of this world
At the centre of "The Weekdays and Holidays of Serafima Glukina" stands a lonely grown woman, Serafima, played by Alisa Freindlich, a museum employee, for those times somewhat not of this world. Today she would be called a representative of the ideas of New Sincerity. A little clumsy,
Almaty · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Heritage · People
Itkind's legacy in Kazakhstan and the condition of his wooden sculptures
Today Itkind's sculptures are displayed in many museums around the world and held in private collections, while a considerable part of the master's legacy is in Kazakhstan, where the most productive decades of his life were spent. Unfortunately, for a time some of the wooden sculptures
Archive · Books · Museums · Society · People
Mikhail Kuzmin's diary at the Literary Museum and a reprimand for Bonch-Bruevich
In late 1933 Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich, director of the State Literary Museum, acquired the archive of the poet Mikhail Kuzmin. The papers included the celebrated diary of the Leningrad poet. For the diary entries covering August 1905 to December 1931, Kuzmin received an enormous sum: 25 thousand roubles. Needless to