NB! · The East · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
Donald Duck and the beautiful slave girls of Chaldea. These days he would already be sitting through a hearing in the Senate
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Look what they've done to the poor fellow! 1897: the very latest invention, combining physical exercise with the morning toilette. Rather poor apparatus you have in your gymnasium, sir.
Monarchies · Observations · Society · Humour
Political technologies, tried and tested over the centuries:. ..managed to stir up the guards' indignation against Peter Fyodorovich and to rouse sympathy for Catherine; and so that there should be no doubt as to the latter's kindness towards the guards, the conspirators warmed the mood of the
NB! · Art · Museums · Observations · People
Still Life with Game, Vegetables and Fruit of 1602 by Juan Sánchez Cotán, the founder of Spanish realism. Can you catch the pleasant whiff of Caravaggism?
Observations · Education · Society
Today the State Duma discussed Oleg Smolin's bill on reducing the paperwork burden on teaching staff. A very timely bill, long awaited by the teaching community, and one that concerns not only university lecturers but also schoolteachers, who are literally groaning under bureaucratic obligations and requirements. One would
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Catherine II compares herself with her innocently slain husband Peter III, as if to show that her happiness is built on the qualities of her character and her conduct. As, indeed, was the misfortune of Peter, the simpleton she deposed and whom her lover killed. Presumptuous of her, of course.
NB! · Observations · Nature
The beautiful meadowsweet, also known as queen of the meadow and devil-gnawer. Very lovely, fragrant and curative. But since this is not a channel about folk medicine, I shall simply delight you with the perfection of a wild flower
Observations · Education · Society
The head of the Presidential Human Rights Council, Valery Fadeev, has proposed introducing conduct marks in schools and barring pupils with a fail in conduct from the OGE and the EGE (the state examinations taken at the end of basic and secondary school). The Minister of Education, Sergey Kravtsov, has
Moscow · Museums · Observations
The Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane, round one of the corners of the main building
Aristocracy · Observations · Mores
A mere scrap of parchment is enough to confer nobility upon a deserving man, but that scrap of parchment possesses none of the virtue that bestows upon his descendants talent, conduct or wisdom
Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
For the first time in its entire history, the Garage Museum will acquire a collection of its own and a permanent display; more precisely, the collection will be shown as open storage in the museum's main building, the Four Seasons pavilion. The first works acquired by the museum
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In whose place, of this trio, would one care to find oneself?