A light wooden frame on a log wall holds an abstract work: a circle with yellow, blue and red segments over a dark photograph. The edge of dark carved furniture shows below.

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Framed geometric composition on a log cabin wall

NB! · Monarchies · Observations · Humour

Do you remember how, in 2012, Elizabeth II stormed the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice?

NB! · Observations · Nature · Humour

Should you feel blue, simply reflect that 95% of the world's chaga reserves lie in Russia

NB! · Observations · Paris

Paris greenery this year 😞

A golden rooster weathervane hanging from a crane sling against a background of Parisian buildings.

NB! · Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris

The golden rooster on Notre-Dame's spire holds relics that survived the 2019 fire

A symbol of awakening from darkness to light, of vigilance and of the protection of Paris, the golden cockerel crowning the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris holds a fragment of Christ's Crown of Thorns, as well as relics of Saint Geneviève and Saint Denis. The relics survived

Colour engraving: three bare-shouldered women seen from behind sit in a theatre box, one using opera glasses. Signed A. Grevin below.

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Women in a theatre box: caricature signed A. Grévin

NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations

I enjoy watching the construction of the pedestrian bridge along Bolotnaya Embankment

I enjoy watching the construction of the pedestrian bridge along Bolotnaya Embankment. It will probably be open in time for City Day

NB! · Geography · Saint Petersburg

The "Cuckoo" local train, which ran from 1864 between Peterhof and Oranienbaum

NB! · Museums · Heritage · Society

The first to tell the gendarmerie about yesterday's robbery of the Lalique Museum was not the security firm but the cleaning lady

NB! · Faith · Observations

However terrible the things that happen in the world, we must remember that the Lord will once more reveal His glory and grant men peace

NB! · Moscow · Observations · Society · Humour

While Nobody Was Looking, the Toilers of Moscow's Municipal Budgetary Institutions from Central Asia Have Begun to Be Replaced by Specialists from Sunny Hindustan

While nobody was looking, the toilers of Moscow's municipal budgetary institutions (the GBU) from Central Asia have begun to be replaced by specialists from sunny Hindustan. The new ethnogeopolitical realities of our courtyard

NB! · Society · Humour