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99 years ago today, the first radio signal was transmitted from Engineer Shukhov's tower
99 years ago today, the first radio signal was transmitted from Engineer Shukhov's tower. The first broadcast of the Comintern Television Tower was a concert of Russian music featuring Nadezhda Obukhova and Boris Evlakhov. As you pass this tower on Shabolovka, know that its engineering solution, devised and
Art · Books · Paris · People
Surgeon Samuel de Pozzi in the 1881 portrait by John Singer Sargent
The French surgeon Samuel-Jean de Pozzi (1846-1918) is sometimes called one of the handsomest men of his day. In his university years he even earned the nickname Siren. Pozzi's life was a most entertaining one, and it is no accident that Julian Barnes devoted his latest
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Ceramics by Apollinaria Brosh: her exhibition opened yesterday at the Triumph Gallery
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The manuscript of an article by Yury Valentinovich Knorozov, co-authored by the cat Asya
NB! · Monarchies · People
Prince Philip returns to Windsor Castle after 28 nights in hospital, the longest stay of his life
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Princess Elizabeth without a special title and the 2010s reform of royal succession
Ten-year-old Elizabeth plays with a dog; at this age she became first in the line of succession to the British throne. Interestingly, at that time, and right up to her accession, the eldest daughter of George VI held no title and was called simply Princess Elizabeth. The only
Aristocracy · Monarchies · Mores · People
Norwegian-Brazilian magnate Erling Lorentzen, widower of Princess Ragnhild, has died
On 9 March, in his 98th year, Erling Sven Lorentzen, the Norwegian-Brazilian magnate and widower of Princess Ragnhild, eldest daughter of King Olav V of Norway, passed away. In his youth Lorentzen was a bodyguard, and among those he guarded was the Norwegian royal family, including Princess Ragnhild herself
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When General Bonaparte told the French writer, publicist and literary salon hostess Madame de Staël that he did not like women meddling in politics, she replied: "Yes, but in a country where women have their heads cut off…
Portrait of Louise Germaine de Staël (1766-1817), painted in 1812 by Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky, when Madame de Staël was visiting Russia and warmly supporting the struggle against Napoleon
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Christine de Pizan wrote “The Book of the City of Ladies” in 1405 as an allegory of a city of women
Christine de Pizan's (1364-1430) book "The City of Ladies" (1405) opens with the writer's account of how she was ashamed to be a woman, since women make men's lives so unbearable. Christine confesses that she fell into despair and felt herself
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The pink dress in Marina Tsvetayeva's 1919 poem and the wish to be loved
In 1919 Marina Tsvetaeva wrote the poem "To You, a Hundred Years Hence", addressed to an admirer from the distant future. Piercing and lyrical at once, sad yet spirited. "Friend! Do not look for me! Another fashion! Not even the old folk remember me." In this
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Marina Tsvetaeva addresses a reader born a century later in a poem of August 1919
To You, in a Hundred Years. To you, who are to be born A century hence, when I have breathed my last – From the very depths – like one condemned to death, I write with my own hand: – Friend! do not look for me! Another fashion! Even the old men do