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I got lost in reading about Australia today and came across a drawing entitled "Conflict witnessed in 1845 at the Sherburn sheep station, at the confluence of the Goulburn River"

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I got lost in reading about Australia today and came across a drawing entitled "Conflict witnessed in 1845 at the Sherburn sheep station, at the confluence of the Goulburn River"

I got lost in reading about Australia today and came across a drawing entitled "Conflict witnessed in 1845 at the Sherburn sheep station, at the confluence of the Goulburn River". The author is tentatively identified as a certain J. Phillips. The piece belongs to the collection of the

By Alexandr Radayev
The legendary openwork cast-iron fence of the Demidov town estate in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane regains its former appearance thanks to the efforts of the "Remember Everything" Labour Commune and the volunteer organisation "Ecological and Cultural Associa

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The legendary openwork cast-iron fence of the Demidov town estate in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane regains its former appearance thanks to the efforts of the "Remember Everything" Labour Commune and the volunteer organisation "Ecological and Cultural Associa

The legendary openwork cast-iron fence of the Demidov town estate in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane regains its former appearance thanks to the efforts of the "Remember Everything" Labour Commune and the volunteer organisation "Ecological and Cultural Association Sloboda". A magnificent pattern emerges from beneath the accumulated

By Alexandr Radayev
While in France the Musée Picasso prepares to issue officially a new edition of bronze sculptures by the late artist, in Russia a case is raging over the sale of forged casts of works by Ernst Neizvestny and their display at the Tretyakov Gallery

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While in France the Musée Picasso prepares to issue officially a new edition of bronze sculptures by the late artist, in Russia a case is raging over the sale of forged casts of works by Ernst Neizvestny and their display at the Tretyakov Gallery

This case has been dragging on since May, and I deliberately refrained from writing about it. In the first place, it seemed to me that for many years now everyone with even the slightest connection to art collecting and the life of Russian auctions has known that our market is

By Alexandr Radayev
Swedish astrophysicist Göran Henriksson of Uppsala University finds that the pagan inhabitants of Old Uppsala used an exact lunisolar calendar to fix the date of the great winter sacrifice

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Swedish astrophysicist Göran Henriksson of Uppsala University finds that the pagan inhabitants of Old Uppsala used an exact lunisolar calendar to fix the date of the great winter sacrifice

Swedish astrophysicist Göran Henriksson of Uppsala University has established that the pagan inhabitants of Old Uppsala used an exact lunisolar calendar to fix the date of the great winter sacrifice. In the pre-Christian era Old Uppsala was the principal religious and political centre of the Svear, one of the

By Alexandr Radayev
Not long ago I wrote on Threads about the Polytechnic Museum, asking when it will open, whereupon a man turned up and began to assert that the museum has had another storey added – mark this – from below!

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Not long ago I wrote on Threads about the Polytechnic Museum, asking when it will open, whereupon a man turned up and began to assert that the museum has had another storey added – mark this – from below!

For all the adepts of TikTok education, I took these photographs yesterday while passing by. The lower storey has always been there! Yes, it was dug out, yes, it was adapted to a new use, reinforced and refurbished, but for now we do not tack lower storeys on to historic

By Alexandr Radayev
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