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Woman with a Letter in London, photographed by Cecil Beaton for Vogue, 1940

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A French Soup Tureen of the Sixteenth Century in the Shape of a Cauliflower

A French soup tureen of the sixteenth century in the shape of a cauliflower. With its own snail, naturally. This is France, after all

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Adam and Eve in Paradise, Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1509

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Congratulations to all on the arrival of March!

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Igor Shelkovsky's "Proverbs"

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Catherine Deneuve, aged 22

NB! · Art · Saint Petersburg

Head-Washing, Alexander Samokhvalov, 1922-23

NB! · Books · Moscow · Society Pages

Listening with rapt attention, alongside @dukaliti, to Svetlana Sidorova's lecture on Pushkin marking the 200th anniversary of the first chapter of "Eugene Onegin", naturally at a gala dinner in the Café Pushkinъ

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“The Angel of the Chronicles” (The Recording Angel): William Blake's illustration to the Divine Comedy, 1827

NB! · Observations · Paris

Paris Jetem

NB! · Faith · Rome

Last Night at the Vatican

NB! · Architecture · Observations · Humour

Yet Another Day of Disapproval of Skyscrapers in Particular and of Modern Architecture in General