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What do you make of this sumptuous eighteenth-century bedchamber in the Genoese Palazzo Rosso?
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John Neumeier stages a Bolshoi Theatre ballet at the Tolstoy festival in Yasnaya Polyana
The main event of the theatrical season may be considered accomplished. Yesterday, at the “Tolstoy” theatre festival in Yasnaya Polyana, a ballet of extraordinary difficulty from the Bolshoi Theatre's repertoire was staged. The stage was erected in a field on the grounds of the Tolstoy estate. Three hours
NB! · Archive · Observations · Society · Humour
The Provisional Government restricted money transfers abroad in June 1917
The Provisional Government has resolved to forbid money transfers abroad and deposits of roubles into the accounts of persons resident abroad. June 1917, and I remember it as if it were yesterday
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The Morning Begins with Vintage Tulle and Peacocks, from Which the Shirts in the New WOS Collection Are Made
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Skeleton holding a scroll in an old engraving
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A Lucky Day Is When You Find the Long-Lost Spine of Volume One Inside Volume Two
Once again I am persuaded that Luna Lovegood was right: what we lose will surely come back to us, though not always in the way we expect
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It turns out that Camilla Parker Bowles has long been friends with Judi Dench, for many years, so they say
It turns out that Camilla Parker Bowles has long been friends with Judi Dench, for many years, so they say. But now that she has become queen, it is of course all the more striking. And so Dame Judi Dench's coolest friend is, after all, no longer Maggie
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So far my absolute favourite piece by Ulyana Sergeenko: a jewelled clutch in the shape of a tennis racket, set with stones and enamel, from the spring-summer 2022 couture collection, whose heroine evoked the composite image of the Muscovite Zosya…
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Dedicated to All Who Have Toiled Gloriously
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Young pianists to perform Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Schubert in 26 Pianissimo concerts
From 1 July to 26 August the Hermitage, GES-2 and the Pakgauzy in Nizhny Novgorod host the Pianissimo summer festival. Twenty-six concerts in which works by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Schubert will be performed by talented young pianists who, in keeping with good tradition, stand at the
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Tsarevich Nicholas and the Duke of York George at a London wedding in 1893
The cousins Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich and George, Duke of York, in 1893, before they became Emperor Nicholas II (in 1894) and King George V (in 1910). The photograph was taken when the Tsarevich Nicholas was in London for the wedding of the Duke of York and Princess Mary of Teck.