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Versailles in Winter

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Russians dearly loved their long beards and moustaches, which Tsar Peter I took from them

Russians dearly loved their long beards and moustaches, which Tsar Peter I took from them. But people prized these marks of respectability so highly that they carefully kept their shorn beards in order to be buried with them, imagining how dreadful they would look in the coffin with a bare

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In René Magritte's Studio

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Primulas, Anna Cotterill (1933-2010)

Oval metro station ceiling with a ring of round lamps and a central mosaic showing an airship and a Kremlin tower with a star.

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Alexander Deineka’s mosaics on the vaults of Mayakovskaya metro station in Moscow

Smalti mosaic panels after sketches by Alexander Deineka on the vaults of Mayakovskaya metro station. One of the most beautiful details of the Moscow Metro