NB! · Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies

Queue at the Imperial Palace in Vienna on the day of the requiem for the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, summer 1914

A column of riders in dark blue uniforms and fur caps carries tall lances. One raises a fist, two clash cymbals, and an ornate standard with ribbons and horsetails rises above them.

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Singing cavalrymen with lances and cymbals on the march, painting detail

NB! · Humour

A Young Man?

A young man? What young man?

Black-and-white photograph of a shirtless man sitting beside a short-haired woman who looks into a bathroom mirror.

NB! · Cinema · Observations · People

In memory of Belmondo, a little over a year after his death

Belmondo died little more than a year ago. One wants to remember him

NB! · Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies

Twelve-year-old Princess Elizabeth with her grandmother, the Dowager Queen Mary of Teck

Vintage two-tone green Panhard saloon parked by a stone wall next to an old petrol pump.

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Cars by the French company Panhard & Levassor and the evolution of design

The incredible machines of Panhard & Levassor, the French company and one of the pioneers of the motor industry. The development of automotive design is one of the most telling examples of the worldwide decline of taste.

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Watching "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power", I greatly regret that Terence Hanbury White's tetralogy "The Once and Future King" never won similar popularity

A black glossy chair with rounded puffy legs and a cushion for a backrest stands on a floor bearing large lettering that reads LOVE.

NB! · Art · Moscow · Society Pages · Humour

Puffy chair by the design duo EdxxKat at the CosMoscow fair

Do take a seat and rest. What could be better, after the first day of the CosMoscow contemporary art fair, so rich in events, discoveries, impressions, enchantments and purchases, than a puffed-up little stool from the design tandem EdxxKat?

Four large prints on an exhibition wall: pink and green plastic seems to float over a spring forest, a marshy clearing and a building under a blue sky.

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Photographs of colored plastic against forest scenes on a gallery wall

NB! · Art · Moscow · People

At the blazar young art fair, the independent artists' section presents works by Anna Kass, artist and daughter of Sergey Sobyanin

At the blazar young art fair, the independent artists' section presents works by Anna Kass, artist and daughter of Sergey Sobyanin. Anna is a graduate of the Stieglitz Academy and the Moscow School of Contemporary Art. Anna's photographs are on sale at 40,000 roubles each

NB! · Nature

Dutch Tulip Fields

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