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If you thought that only we could produce a frightening statue of Alyonushka, look at this ghastly Greta Thunberg from the University of Winchester

NB! · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg

Mirror with a bullet mark in a Hermitage interior

A bullet mark in the mirror. The Hermitage

NB! · Archive · Art · London · Museums

The Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum, 1885

NB! · Faith · Art

The Golden Halo of the Virgin in Piero della Francesca's Polyptych of Saint Anthony

Piero della Francesca, Polyptych of Saint Anthony. The Virgin's halo, a single plate of solid gold in which her head is reflected

NB! · Archive · Architecture

Long Exposure, Florence, Piazza della Libertà, 1880

NB! · Archive · Monarchies · Society · People

The text of the abdication of Nicholas II from the throne of the Russian state on 2 March 1917, and the de facto abdication of Mikhail, who is prepared to accept power only if the people vote for it

NB! · Archive · Society · Society Pages

George W. Bush and All the Living Presidents of the United States at a Formal Luncheon in Honour of Obama's Election, January 2009

NB! · Observations · Rome

In Short, Why I Prefer Not to Visit Rome in Summer

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Gold filigree cylindrical case topped with a crown, pearls and leaves

NB! · Archive · Books

The First Version of the Title of *Pride and Prejudice*

NB! · London · Monarchies · Observations · Humour

Elizabeth I, Death and a New iPhone

NB! · Moscow · Museums · Heritage · People

Memorial plaque to Irina Antonova on the house in Maly Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane, where Irina Alexandrovna lived from 1942 to 1982