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The Comb-Makers' Guild Board Had Its Own Emblem Too, This Time, Happily, Without the Sense of a Living Person Being Forcibly Turned into a Doll
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Banner of the Saint Petersburg Hairdressers' and Barbers' Guild, Founded in 1785
The badge of the Russian Craft Board of the Hairdressers' and Barbers' Guild, established on 26 April 1785. Tell me, am I the only one who finds it slightly ghoulish that a hairdresser's dummy is rendered as a living body, which looks lopped off and mounted
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THE GOMATSOLS? 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
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Knaves of Diamonds in Their Drawers: Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov (with Violin) and Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky (with Sheet Music)
Knaves of Diamonds in their drawers: Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov (with violin) and Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky (with sheet music). 1910, Mashkov. Painting from the collection of the Russian Museum
NB! · Architecture · Monarchies · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
Russia's First Interior Finished in Artificial Marble: The Rooms of the Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum
Russia's first interior finished in artificial marble: the rooms of the Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum. Of genuine marble here there are only the fireplace surrounds. The idea of such a scheme of decoration belonged to Catherine the Great
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I adore Russian furniture 🔮
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On the night of 13 to 14 November 1961, the monument to Stalin in East Berlin was demolished as part of the Soviet-wide campaign of de-Stalinisation
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The Virgin Mary, Newly Delivered, Warms Her Feet on a Lamb
The Virgin Mary, newly delivered, warms her feet on a lamb. “Holy Night” from Manchester Cathedral, by the English artist Josefina Alice Hermes de Vasconcellos (1904-2005), who completed the sculpture at the age of 87
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Anatomical engraving of a human back from a book by Jacques-Fabien Gautier d'Agoty
A flayed angel? From Jacques-Fabien Gautier d'Agoty's book "General Anatomy of the Internal Organs"
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Peasant with a spoon in his cap, detail of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting “The Peasant Dance”
A sixteenth-century peasant with his spoon. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, detail from the painting "The Peasant Dance".
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