Dark ruins of the Colosseum, with glowing blue dots in the night sky tracing its arches and tiers above. A crowd of spectators stands along the fence below.

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The Colosseum at night with a outline of blue lights in the sky above the ruins

Two blue books on stands: S. B. Veselovsky's «Clerks and Under-clerks of the 15th–17th Centuries» and L. N. Pushkarev's «Classification of Russian Written Sources on National History».

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Books by S. B. Veselovsky and L. N. Pushkarev on display

NB! · Observations · Pop Culture

What Use to Me Is the Sun of Monaco, and the Moon of Saint-Tropez, Tell Me What For

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Baba Yaga, Viktor Vasnetsov

NB! · Faith · Observations · Rome

In the Vatican, Christmas Is Over

In the Vatican, Christmas is over. But we still have the Old New Year and Epiphany to come

NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations

The hall at GES-2 really is very beautiful, even if the iron doors clang rather too loudly

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Merry Christmas!

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The ruins of the Kreuzburg church in the present-day village of Slavskoye, Kaliningrad Region

The ruins of the Kreuzburg church in the present-day village of Slavskoye, Kaliningrad Region. The ancestors of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien came from Kreuzburg

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The Crown, and Bertel Thorvaldsen's Mercury as an Interior Decoration

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Instead of ugly glass skyscrapers, they might try building something like this

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Star Wars Characters in the Style of the Napoleonic Era

NB! · The East · Pop Culture · Ethnography

From mid-December to mid-April, Saint Moritz in Switzerland will host a Louis Vuitton pop-up store in the form of a Central Asian yurt, decorated in the LV style