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I learned that I have a huge family: the path and the little wood, and in the field every single ear of corn!

Я узнал, что у меня Есть огромная семья: И тропинка, и лесок, В поле – каждый колосок! Речка, небо голубое – Это все мое, родное. Это Родина моя! Всех люблю на свете я! Literal translation I learned that I have A huge family: The path and the little wood, And in the

NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations

For New Year cheer I am, for the moment, relying on a bauble bearing a sketch of a space object by Rostan Tavasiev, from the Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Faith · London · Monarchies · Observations · Society

Christmas and the requirement for the King of England to belong to the Church of England

In his Christmas message, King Charles III of Great Britain speaks with rapture of Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and the "diversity of communities" But Christmas is surely not about inclusivity, nor about the brotherhood of foreign creeds, nor about any Oriental rites or political truisms. Christmas is the feast

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Psst, how many days to New Year?

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Of the scanty listings of events devoted to the Decembrists, one exhibition made a good impression: "In the Depths of the Siberian Mines

Of the scanty listings of events devoted to the Decembrists, one made a good impression: the exhibition "In the Depths of the Siberian Mines. The Decembrists. 200 Years of History" at the In artibus foundation. The display brings together exhibits from six state collections, chiefly watercolours with portraits

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Long before the Decembrists were admitted to the canon of the revolution's forerunners, Klyuchevsky called them a historical accident overgrown with literature, and Tyutchev remarked that Russian history was, to his taste, far too perversely arranged…

And now, two hundred years after the Uprising, one has the feeling that there is no longer a place for the Decembrists in the official pantheon, and that they will never again be as revered as they were in the middle of the twentieth century, when they were extolled as

NB! · Art · Observations · People · Humour

I have never understood why Picasso may receive guests in his studio in his underpants, while for me it is not comme il faut

Books · Observations · Society

In his book "Men Among the Ruins" Evola attempts to propose a philosophical basis for the post-war world, and it contains a chapter, "The Demonic Nature of the Economy", in which he rejects the materialist foundation of modern society and the fixation on

In his book "Men Among the Ruins" Evola attempts to propose a philosophical basis for the post-war world, and it contains a chapter, "The Demonic Nature of the Economy", in which he rejects the materialist foundation of modern society and the fixation on the economy

Screenshot of a listing: a model of a mammoth with white tusks stands in a workshop, priced at 980,000 roubles, Moscow.

Observations · Palaeontology · Humour

A model of a mammoth is offered for sale in Moscow for 980,000 roubles

A Mammoth at a Reasonable Price. A pity it is only a model

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Teutonic Knights' Costumes in Eisenstein's “Alexander Nevsky” and Medieval Codices

Unbelievably, the maddest part of Eisenstein's film Alexander Nevsky, the costumes of the Teutonic knights, actually reproduces historical reality quite accurately. At least if we are to believe the illustrations in medieval codices, for example the German Codex Manesse (2, 3) of around 1300 and the Zurich Armorial

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Excuse me, I Ordered Four Cheeses!!!

I don't know about you, but at first I fancied that this portly eighteenth-century monk was holding a slice of pizza. In fact, the Portuguese brother is holding a reliquary of the Mother of God. The abode of this good soul is Newstead Abbey in England, which

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We, the late heirs of Western civilisation, have lost our naive faith

We, the late heirs of Western civilisation, have lost our naive faith. Ideological systems will no longer lead us astray Oswald Spengler once used these words to parry Marx. But, looking at Europe today in its total ideological bondage, one may say with certainty that Spengler was mistaken