Black-and-white photograph of a hall with a sculpted frieze, a chandelier, a double door topped by sphinxes and a long table with chairs.

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Interior of the Ceremonial Hall of the Academy of Arts Library in Saint Petersburg, 1900s

The ceremonial hall of the Academy of Arts library. Saint Petersburg, 1900s

A rusty metal pile with a Corinthian capital above dark water, with pale apartment buildings on the far shore under a blue sky.

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Boremir Bakharev created a mooring pile with a Corinthian capital for the “Waterfront/Водная линия” competition

Art object "Mooring Post with a Metal Capital of the Corinthian Order", made from an old metal pipe with the addition of a Corinthian capital by the artist Boremir Bakharev in 2021 for the "Waterfront/Vodnaya liniya" competition. Saint Petersburg, waters of the River Smolenka

NB! · Faith · Humour

The main thing with this hairstyle is that the Philistine woman does not creep up on you

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Today's Weather Forecast

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That was a funny idea of yours

NB! · Books · Observations · Humour

In Case You Didn't Know, Larisa Ogudalova Invented Cringe

In case you didn't know, Larisa Ogudalova invented cringe. Or rather, Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky did.

NB! · Moscow · Education · Society

Chief Accountant of the University Appointed Acting Rector of GITIS

Old black-and-white photo: a uniformed man in boots stands by a cabinet with flowers. Behind him are two busts on pedestals with flowers, flanked by dark banners.

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Soldier in a tunic standing by a lectern with busts and banners

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A historically accurate reconstruction, though the contractor has connections at City Hall

A room with green walls, patterned red curtains, a desk by the window, yellow armchairs, a red carpet behind a rope barrier and a chandelier.

NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Heritage

Lenin’s Study at the Gorki Estate Museum Keeps the Furnishings of Zinaida Morozova

Lenin's study at the Lenin Museum-Estate at Gorki. The handsomeness of the furnishings owes everything to the fact that they survive from the estate's pre-revolutionary mistress, Zinaida Morozova, with the exception of the clothed office desk delivered specially for Ilyich

Black and white photograph of camels harnessed to sledges loaded with bales and barrels, standing beside railway wagons at a station.

NB! · Archive · Geography · Mores

Camel train carrying goods at Kurgan station of the South Ural Railway in the 1890s

Delivery of goods by camel. Kurgan station on the South Ural Railway, 1890s

Book page with Russian verse text: Gimil-Ninurta brings a goat to the governor of Nippur. Line numbers 20, 30, 40 are at the left; page number 209 is at the bottom.

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