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Russian Artists and Spain at the “Images of Spain” Exhibition at the Pushkin Museum
"For Russians who had an abundance of imagination or money, travel in Europe took on an almost ritual character. Those concerned with their health, and at the same time stirred by roulette, set off for Baden-Baden; lovers of the beautiful hastened to Rome; in search of adventure they
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When You Are Thirty, but You Are a Heroine of Balzac
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As for that amusing piece of fan fiction ranking the tallest buildings on Earth, in which the Burj Khalifa in Dubai falls slightly short of the tower of Barad-dûr in Mordor, let me remind you that this is nothing more than conjecture: nowhere in the text
And if, like the author of this infographic, you are working from the visual impressions of Peter Jackson's film adaptation, then one must not forget the Tower of Ecthelion on the uppermost tier of Minas Tirith, or Orthanc, for instance. Still, the comparison of the aesthetics of the
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Alexander Molok on German foreign policy and a thousand years of attacks on Europe
A Thousand Years of War, War Without Any Particular Cause. So it turns out the Germans have been terrorising the whole of Europe for a thousand years. "The seizure and plundering of foreign lands, the enslavement and extermination of other peoples have from time immemorial formed the essence and
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King Charles III and Queen Camilla as Christmas tree ornaments
How do you like this Father Frost and Snow Maiden? King Charles III and Queen Camilla as Christmas tree ornaments
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Aren't you my handsome darling ❤️
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What do you make of the road signs in a book of 1400?
What do you make of the road signs in a book of 1400? I think they are magnificent
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Children's furniture in the Empire style at the Antiques Salon
At the Antiques Salon I rather fell for this set of children's furniture. It looks exactly like a proper "grown-up" Empire-style study, only everything is made to a reduced scale: note the proportion of the doll to the back of the sofa. The sideboards
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Alexandr Radayev on the Influence of Information Flow, in Veronika Kandaurova's Piece for “RBC Style”
How does the flow of information affect our lives? Veronika Kandaurova asked me about my attitude to it for a piece in «RBC Style». In short: I have never been dependent on the existing formats of media distribution on the internet, and I advise no one else to be. On
Archive · London · Observations · Mores
Pre-Christmas shopping at Woolworths in London in 1955 and life before online shopping
Christmas Eve at Woolworths in London, 1955. Do you remember the time when shops were crowded and noisy, and when going shopping was a serious undertaking in its own right? No snowdrift could daunt you when you knew that any minute now you and Mum would queue at the department
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I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe
Richard Feynman