Two glossy prints of night fields hang on the grey and white walls of a gallery corner. Colorful geometric lines and sound-wave graphics are overlaid on them.

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Two works with colored lines over night landscapes in a gallery corner

NB! · Society · People

An excellent opening for a biography: nobody liked him

An excellent opening for a biography: nobody liked him. But then, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, the Convention's commissioner in the days of the Haitian Revolution, lived a short but interesting life. He freed the slaves of Saint-Domingue, for one thing

A white figure with its face covered by cloth sits on a wooden pew in a dark church. Rows of similar figures and small red candle lights stretch behind it.

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Figures draped in white cloth seated on church pews among red candles

An elderly woman in a black hat holds a framed award with a mask while a man in a grey jacket applauds beside her, with red theatre seats behind.

NB! · Observations · People · Society Pages

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya receives the Golden Mask on 17 February at the age of 82

On 17 February Lyudmila Petrushevskaya received the Golden Mask, and everyone probably knows it by now. But just look how marvellous this 82-year-old girl looks 💞

NB! · Aristocracy · Archive · Mores · Pop Culture

Lee Radziwill (1933-2019), Janet Lee Bouvier (1907-1989), Jackie Kennedy (1929-1994)

Lee Radziwill (1933-2019), Janet Lee Bouvier (1907-1989), Jackie Kennedy (1929-1994). Three women of the Bouvier family who in their day shone in the social firmament of the United States

NB! · Art

Not a Bad Portrait for the Sixteenth Century

A display case in a gilded frame with a clock among bookcases, holding costumed monkey figures playing instruments in a hall with painted walls.

NB! · Art · Museums · Humour

Mechanical monkey orchestra, probably late 18th century, in a gilded frame with a clock

Nothing special, just a monkey orchestra, supposedly of the late eighteenth century, though the ceiling paintings and candelabra point to the historicism of the nineteenth. The mechanism, alas, is broken

Black-and-white photo: a dark-haired woman in a light dress, long gloves and pearl necklace talks with a man in a dinner jacket. Glasses and plates cover the tables.

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Young woman and man in black tie seated at a formal dinner table

NB! · Monarchies · Observations · Mores

Prince Philip and Elizabeth, after all, lived a wonderfully beautiful life in marriage from 1947

Prince Philip and Elizabeth, after all, lived a wonderfully beautiful life in marriage from 1947. Let us hope that he will manage to recover, and that Philip will remain a while longer beside his Cabbage

NB! · Coming Up · In the Press · Moscow

Watch and listen to me tonight at 00:10 on Moscow 24

Watch and listen to me tonight at 00:10 on Moscow 24. It ought to be interesting 🙄

View up the facade of a building with drainpipes and air conditioners. Snow and fragments of ice fall from the roof against a cloudy sky.

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Snow and chunks of ice falling from the cornice of a multistorey brick building

NB! · Architecture