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Stone figure of a veiled woman reading a book on a tomb
The Nun of Guisch Abbey Keeps on Reading Even After Death. If you happen to know one, do forward her this post
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NB! · Moscow · Observations · Nature
Autumn Has Come to Moscow
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Floral still life with roses in a glass vase, a snail and a butterfly
A painting by the seventeenth-century Flemish artist Nicolaes van Verendael, sold yesterday at auction for 260,000 Swiss francs. Just look at the detail! Such masterpieces are not to be found among modern painters
NB! · In the Press · Observations · Society
My new column on cultural codes appears in the September issue of RBC Style
NB! · Observations · Society
Posters reading "Russia is not our enemy" hang all over Italy
Art · Observations · Humour
The Artist Émile Friant as the Embodiment of Readiness for the Trials of the Coming Week
Portrait in the studio interior, 1882
Books · Observations · Science · People
Verses by Julian Huxley, brother of the writer Aldous Huxley and grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, President of the Royal Society of London and corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Verses by Julian Huxley, brother of the writer Aldous Huxley and grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, President of the Royal Society of London and corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. All three grandsons of that gentleman, by the way, became distinguished men, luminaries before whom one ought,
Art · Observations
Exhibition on ten trends in Russian contemporary art of the past five years at Sistema gallery
Sistema gallery hosts an interesting survey exhibition, 10 Trends in Contemporary Russian Art of the Past Five Years. The display fills the whole of the gallery's large building and represents the principal tendencies in art through the work of contemporary artists: from post-digital art to naive art,
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Work by Syugir Buluktaev with a three-eyed horse at the Sistema gallery opening
Syugir Buluktayev's horse at the opening at Sistema gallery, all three of whose eyes have popped out of their sockets at the art on view. To make sense of the sheer quantity of art events now taking place, one requires the serenity of a blissful ladybird
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Today's assignment on chapter 19 of the Acts of the Apostles
Good morning! Today's assignment. I shall be round to check.
NB! · Archive · Observations · Pop Culture
The Russian variety singer Anastasia Vyaltseva in a dress with birds, and an Alexander McQueen jacket with the same swallows, from the 1995 collection
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