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Subsidies for Saint Petersburg museums to buy works of art to resume this year
Subsidies for Saint Petersburg museums to buy works of art are to resume this year. In 2025 around 100 million roubles will be allocated for the purpose, the Governor of Saint Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, has announced
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Dante
Dante. Salvador Dalí
NB! · Archive · Books · People · Humour
George Bernard Shaw with a surfboard on the South African coast at the age of 75, 1931
NB! · Observations · Humour
When They Asked for the Abstract
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If I Were Not Alexander, I Should Wish to Be Diogenes
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Marble bas-relief of a woman with birds and piglets in an arched niche
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
A magnificent twin-spiral oak staircase, twenty-one metres high and weighing twenty tonnes, has been installed in the south tower of Notre-Dame de Paris
NB! · Architecture · Monarchies · Heritage
Interior of the house in Ajaccio, Corsica, where Napoleon was born
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Small drawing of an orange object on aged paper, framed, in a gallery
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations
Balloon arch with the number 90 above a Moscow metro entrance at sunset
Beautiful. The Moscow Metro, my absolute favourite ❤️
NB! · Books · Moscow · Observations · Pop Culture
Watching “What? Where? When?”
Watching “What? Where? When?” I am astonished that not a single person in an entire hall of clever-clogs could identify the book lift from the Lenin Library! They are practically identical in nearly all libraries. Well, well: our respected citizens stray ever further from the temple of knowledge