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Wooden structure at the Vladimir and Suzdal Museum-Reserve
How enchanting Russia is! The Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve
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Sarafan, shugay and lunnik kokoshnik in the women's costume of northern Rus
Consider this: the image of a townswoman of Suzdal at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Before us is a northern costume. The boundary between the Great Russian North and South is usually taken to be the present-day Moscow Region, so the northern lands are generally held
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A 1646 engraving of caution and boldness in pharmacy and surgery
An engraving of 1646 depicts Prudence (left) and Boldness (right). Besides the ideals of medical practice, the engraving conveys the two principal medical trades of its day: the apothecary's art, with a physician giving medicine to a patient in bed, and surgery, with a surgeon amputating the leg
Observations · Pop Culture · Ethnography
Speaking of fashion, historical costume deserves the serious attention of the modern industry
Here is a very enthusiastic young woman from the USA, Sara de Herrera, who made with her own hands a traditional feather mantle of the Choctaw people, who originally lived in the territories of the south-east of the United States. Choctaw women, among the most vivid representatives of the
Architecture · Monarchies · Observations · Mores
Hidden boxes for mourners and the emperor's security in the Fontainebleau palace theatre
Have you ever noticed these latticed niches just beneath the dome of old theatres? In the royal theatre at the Palace of Fontainebleau, for instance, behind such mesh-covered oculi there lay small chambers with additional seats: the theatrical hierarchy reserved these hidden boxes for people in mourning and, of
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Double tomb of the 14th century in the village church of Ampleforth, North Yorkshire
It must be said that this is a very strange fourteenth-century tomb, in the village church of Ampleforth in North Yorkshire. And if it struck you that this double monument depicts a married couple, then why is the woman wearing a wimple? Were these people buried in one grave,
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The mountain of hands in the Archaeological Museum of Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia, recalled the touching scene in «Call Me by Your Name» in which the heroes attend the raising of a statue from the bed of the Aegean Sea, and Oliver hands Elio a bronz
These hands, too, have been raised from the depths, though not of the sea but of a marsh. The pottery found in 1891 in the marsh of Santa Gilla dates from the 4th-3rd centuries BC. These are votive hands, that is, offered as gifts in fulfilment of a vow,
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Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda menswear show and trousers as a sign of Rome's fall
Caesar led the Gauls in triumph, then Caesar led the Gauls into the Senate; they took off their trousers and put on the toga with the purple border. The menswear part of the Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda AW 2019/20 show recalls the Roman proverb about the Gauls. The
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What are my plans for the near future?
What are my plans for the near future? To move into Downton Abbey in The Sims and restore the Dowager Countess of Grantham to her former glory, make Lady Mary's disgrace public, and arrange Henry Talbot's personal life. True, I shall have to shell out for
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In principle, there are several more candidates for the role of the mermaid
In principle, there are several more candidates for the role of the mermaid. What say you?
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Who I Should Like to See in the Lead Role in the "Little Mermaid" Remake
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The Lomonosov Museum in the Kunstkamera, conceived by Vavilov in 1938 and created by 1949
My favourite part of the Kunstkamera is the Lomonosov Museum. The collection of objects connected with the life of the great scholar and with his age is housed in the tower in the central part of the building, which was restored to its historical appearance only in the 1940s, almost