NB! · Observations · People · Humour

Leonardo da Vinci disapproves of our forgetting to congratulate him yesterday on his 572nd birthday

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Installation: a cotton-wool cloud over an ashtray, with ward models in the windows

NB! · Moscow · Museums · People · Society Pages

Zoya Boguslavskaya on the eve of her hundredth birthday with her son Leonid Boguslavsky at the opening of the exhibition "Always Zoya. An Exhibition Novel" at the Voznesensky Centre

Zoya Boguslavskaya on the eve of her hundredth birthday with her son Leonid Boguslavsky at the opening of the exhibition "Always Zoya. An Exhibition Novel" at the Voznesensky Centre, devoted to the creative and personal path of Zoya Borisovna

A red church with white columns, one golden dome and blue domes with stars, under an overcast sky.

NB! · Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Observations

Klimentovskaya Church in Zamoskvorechye with red walls and white columns

I am very fond of the Church of St Clement. Such a smartly dressed Roman lady, but in Zamoskvorechye

Landscape with a brick house on a canal bank, a boat, a cart and water lilies, the house reflected in blue water.

NB! · Art · People

Early realist paintings by Piet Mondrian, later a pioneer of abstraction

Both paintings are by Piet Mondrian. Yes, the pioneer of abstraction began as a realist painter

NB! · Books · Observations · Humour

Came to the Bookshop to Look at My Beloved Self

NB! · Archive · Monarchies

Elizabeth II, Charles III and Princess Anne at Balmoral Castle in 1952

Silhouette of a statue on a tall pillar against pink and grey clouds, shot through a rain-speckled window, with a road sign and city buildings below.

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Gagarin Monument Against a Pink Sunset Sky

Close-up of a marble head of a man with short locks combed forward, a damaged wreath and ribbons hanging by the ears. The eyes are blank; the background is red.

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Ancient marble bust of a man wearing a wreath, against a red background

NB! · Monarchies · Observations · Humour

Know anyone as much like Caligula as Joffrey Baratheon?

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The Situation

Rows of yellow electric scooters stand on a square before a pale colonnaded building under a cloudy sky; small coloured rectangles are scattered on the ground.

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