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Dyl Bul Shchyl Kruchenykh, sculpture by Leonid Sokov, 2005
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Vogue cover of 1 December 1914
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I have never understood why Picasso may receive guests in his studio in his underpants, while for me it is not comme il faut
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In this photograph from the early 1960s: students of the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio
In this photograph from the early 1960s: students of the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio. In the front row Vera Alentova is easy to recognise; in the back row one can make out Andrey Myagkov, along with Vsevolod Abdulov, Gemma Osmolovskaya, Yelena Odintsova and Rogvold Sukhoverko
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Vera Alentova, aged 22, at the Genoa Municipal Theatre in 1964, in the company of Rogvold Sukhoverko and Nikolai Malyuchenko
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Owners of cultural heritage sites made liable for the condition of facades, with fines tied to cadastral value
Owners of cultural heritage sites have been made answerable for the condition of monument façades. Fines for such violations depend on the cadastral value of the property, and in extreme cases its confiscation is possible. At present, around 40% of cultural heritage sites are restored with private investment
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The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, from Conrad Grünenberg's "Description of a Journey from Constance to Jerusalem" (c
The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, from Conrad Grünenberg's "Description of a Journey from Constance to Jerusalem" (c. 1487). Baden State Library, Karlsruhe
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The Book of the Wisdom of Jesus, Son of Sirach, Chapter 19
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In 1951 a group of Catholic activists hanged, and then burned, a wooden effigy of Santa Claus before several hundred children, in protest at the paganisation and commercialisation of the Nativity of Christ
In 1951 a group of Catholic activists hanged, and then burned, a wooden effigy of Santa Claus before several hundred children, in protest at the paganisation and commercialisation of the Nativity of Christ. The action was a one-off and, as we can see 75 years on, did not achieve
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