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A Plant-Made Replica of Elizabeth II’s Coronation Robe Is on Show at Sandringham House

Sandringham House is displaying a replica of Elizabeth II's coronation robe made from plants. Twenty-four florists selected a variety of leaves and blooms so that they could be arranged into a robe and patterns closely resembling the royal originals. Pampas grass, a great many cereal grasses, ferns,

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Macron and Mattarella at the opening of the exhibition “Naples in Paris” at the Louvre

Little Macron with the President of Italy, 81-year-old Sergio Mattarella, before the Mona Lisa. They pledge allegiance to great art on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition from the Capodimonte Museum at the Louvre, "Naples in Paris". Not long ago, relations between France and

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Repin's last self-portrait of 1920 and the artist's hard life in Kuokkala

Repin painted his last self-portrait in 1920, at the age of 76. Those years proved a very hard time in his life. His wife had been dead for some years, and for some years he had been cut off from family and friends by borders: after the revolution the

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Repin's studio in his house and his Sunday drawing despite doctors' advice

"...I love art more than virtue, more than people, than my nearest and dearest, than my friends, more than any happiness or joys of our life," from Ilya Repin's letter to the art critic Stasov. In this studio on the first floor of his house Repin

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Dining table with a rotating central section at Repin's Penaty estate

Ilya Repin and his wife Natalia Nordman devised an unusual table for their house in the village of Kuokkala, which allowed everyone to sit down to dinner in comfort and required no servants at the feast. This remarkable table, far ahead of its time, had two parts: a moving one

Architecture · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg

The Levashovsky Bakery, built in Leningrad in 1933, has become a cultural centre

In 1933 a unique automated bakery was built in Leningrad, in which the bread-making cycle was automated to the greatest possible degree. The conveyor line was arranged in rings set on different floors of the building. Flour was delivered to the very top, where the sourdough department was situated.

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Military regulations of Nicholas I's reign and a portrait of a boy holding one

Portrait of a Boy with a Book. Unknown artist, first half of the nineteenth century. Collection of the Romanov Museum, Kostroma Museum-Reserve. The book reads: “Military Regulations. Left, forward, march.” Two hundred years have passed, and how familiar the wording still is! The first half of the nineteenth century

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"Girl with a Pot of Roses", Vasily Andreyevich Tropinin, 1850

The artist's signature is not easily found on the painting; it is hidden in the decoration of the pot. The canvas was bought in an antique shop in the 1950s as the work of an unknown artist, but the buyer, the art historian Felix Vishnevsky, discovered the concealed

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The Pushkin Museum turns 111 as director Elizaveta Likhacheva invites guests to celebrate

To the country's finest museum, our dear and beloved Pushkin Museum, 111 years old today. Yelizaveta Likhacheva, Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, invites you to celebrate this great anniversary

Faith · Art · Museums

The Kostroma Museum-Reserve holds an interesting collection of carved icons, among them this highly detailed Last Judgement of the 19th century

Jesus is seated upon a blue sphere. At the centre is the Etimasia, the judgement throne, where souls will be judged. At the right hand of Christ are the righteous, making their way into the garden of Paradise with the Mother of God and the saints. At the left hand