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Visited the exhibition "Arctic. Pole of Colour" at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya
Visited the exhibition "Arctic. Pole of Colour" at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya, devoted to images of the Far North in Russian art. The display is rather interesting: there are Arctic landscapes, motifs from the art of the peoples of the North, and local artists. Unusually, it also
NB! · The East · Geography · Nature
Senzu-no-Kiridoshi, a narrow stone staircase cut into the rock on the island of Izu Oshima in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Archive · Moscow · Society · Nature
Moscow flood in which the water rose to 9 metres and inundated Zamoskvorechye
On 11 April 1908, Good Friday, the most famous Moscow flood began, inundating a quarter of the city, an area of 16 square kilometres. A sharp thaw after the snowiest winter in 18 years filled the Moskva River and its tributaries, and in just twenty-four hours the water level
Observations · Science · Nature
Sebastian Voltmer's 1 December image and questions about the anti-tail and plasma tail of 3I/ATLAS
Sebastian Voltmer has published a stunning image of the "comet" 3I/ATLAS taken on 1 December. Well-informed viewers are asking how to explain the green anti-tail, which moves against the solar wind, and the opposite blue tail, which moves with it. I, for my part, simply
Almaty · Archive · The East · Geography · Nature
Disappearance of the Turan tiger in Central Asia and hopes for reintroducing a related species
A Hunting Party of the 5th Turkestan Line Battalion, Fifteen Other Ranks Strong, with Tigers Killed in the Environs of the River Amu Darya. The Caspian tiger, which ranged from the Caucasus to the north-west of China and had made its home across vast territories along the southern shore
Faith · Art · Observations · Nature · Ethnography
An Unidentified Flying Object in the Italian Sky
“The Walnut Tree of Benevento” is a picture of 1826 by Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti, created for a series of images of the mystical and miraculous phenomena of Italy, in which the artist documented not real events but folk legends, traditions and marvels that existed within Italian culture. The subject is
NB! · Archive · Nature · Saint Petersburg
The Summer Garden in Autumn, Saint Petersburg, photograph by Vsevolod Tarasevich, 1965
Observations · Nature · Reportage
Botanical gardens and nature parks are among my favourite kinds of sights
Botanical gardens and nature parks are among my favourite kinds of sights. So the first thing I did on arriving in Sochi, where we had come for the premiere of the new season of «Tonky vkus» [«A Refined Taste»], was to head for the Sochi Arboretum, one of the best-
NB! · Faith · People · Nature
It turns out that Saint Innocent of Alaska (1797-1879), also known as Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, rescued an eagle (or was it a bald eagle?), nursed it back to health and set it free, only for the bird to return and become a friend to its saviour
Archive · Faith · Books · Nature
Ivan Bunin's 1918 poem on field paths and the Lord's question to the prodigal son
And flowers, and bumblebees, and grass, and ears of corn, And azure sky, and noonday heat… The hour will come, and the Lord will ask the prodigal son: “Were you happy in your life on earth?” And I shall forget everything, remembering only these Field paths between the ears of
Art · Palaeontology · Nature · Humour
Wayne Barlow’s 1995 portrait of Nanotyrannus and the dispute over the genus
Portrait of a Nanotyrannus. Wayne Barlow, 1995. Nanotyrannus lancensis is a disputed genus of dinosaurs. Some prefer to classify them as a separate species, others maintain that these are simply young, undersized specimens of Tyrannosaurus, only without wifi and emotional instability