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The phrase "old money style" I take to mean "my ancestors were poor and I am embarrassed about it"
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Officially in Love with the 1965 Cover of "Fathers and Sons", Borrowed from a Nineteenth-Century Russian Songbook
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I don't know about you, but for me the titles of Lenin's works are literally a selection of moods for every day
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The Rule of Three Handshakes
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Why does the Tupolev on the monument on Akademika Tupoleva Embankment near Kursky Station look like the inventor of paper clips rather than aircraft?
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Sundial on a column at the Temple of Apollo in Pompeii still keeps accurate time
At last, a convenient sundial. The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii. Best of all, it still tells the time without error
Art · Observations
August
August. Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1691. A reminder that July and August have for more than two thousand years now borne the names of the Roman emperors Julius Caesar and Octavian Augustus. Julius Caesar, who gave the world a calendar almost matching the length of the solar year, named one of
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There Is Something Not Quite Right About This Stalin...
Books · Observations · Humour
Come round, I'll show you my magnificent library
A magnificent library:
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Ultima Salon Africa party at Plus Dacha in Gorky Park with a concert by Emtee
After yesterday's radio broadcast I hurried to Plus Dacha in Gorky Park, where in the coolness of the spreading avenues the atmospheric playlist of the "Ultima Salon: Africa" party, curated by Ultima Yandex Go and Yandex Music, was already playing. Plus Dacha has changed greatly since
Cinema · Books · Observations
One of the finest screen adaptations of Dostoevsky was made by Ivan Pyryev in 1958
One of the finest screen adaptations of Dostoevsky was made by Ivan Pyryev in 1958. Alas, the unfinished two-part film "The Idiot" was not duly appreciated in its day. The general mood after its release was such that Pyryev abandoned the idea of shooting the second part.