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Sea Monsters Devouring a Whale, 1961
A print after a drawing by Kiakshuk, an Inuit artist who was 75 at the time, had first turned to art at the age of 60, and had lived by hunting alone until then. The stone-cut print was made by his son Lukta Kiatsuk
NB! · Art · Paris · People
Renoir Was Young Once Too, and We Have Frédéric Bazille to Thank for the Reminder
NB! · Architecture · Books · Museums · Heritage · People
The House in Odessa Where Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Lived
The house in Odessa where Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin lived. The Hotel du Nord stood here, and Pushkin stayed in it for a month in the summer of 1823. The street was then called Italianskaya; in 1880 it was renamed Pushkinskaya. In 1959 a Literary Memorial Museum was opened here
NB! · Cinema · Moscow · Society · People
A Street Named After Vladimir Etush Appears in Moscow
A street named after Vladimir Etush has appeared in Moscow. It runs from Lobachevsky Street to Vasily Lanovoy Street
NB! · Art · Paris · People
The Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos in the Red Salon of his Paris residence, the Hôtel de Chanaleilles, beneath the Pietà (c. 1581) by Doménikos Theotokópoulos, El Greco, one of the principal treasures of his own collection
The Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos in the Red Salon of his Paris residence, the Hôtel de Chanaleilles, beneath the Pietà (c. 1581) by Doménikos Theotokópoulos, El Greco, one of the principal treasures of his own collection
Aristocracy · Cinema · People · Pop Culture
It turns out that Sir Christopher Lee, the actor who brought Saruman to life in Peter Jackson's film trilogy, was descended on his mother's side from the noble Italian house of Carandini
It turns out that Sir Christopher Lee, the actor who brought Saruman to life in Peter Jackson's film trilogy, was descended on his mother's side from the noble Italian house of Carandini. This allowed Christopher Lee to trace his lineage directly back to Charlemagne, Emperor of
Aristocracy · Cinema · People · Pop Culture
In 2007 Helen Mirren, born Elena Lydia Vasilyevna Mironova, visited Russia and found her cousins and other relatives
Her grandmother was Countess Lydia Andreyevna Kamenskaya, her grandfather Colonel Pyotr Vasilyevich Mironov. Helen's father arrived in Great Britain at the age of two. In Russia her grandfather had left behind six sisters and other kin. When Mirren visited Russia, she managed to track down relatives, to see
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Portrait of Vladimir Putin by George W. Bush
Books · Mores · People · Humour
"Mummy, mummy, they said at the museum that Mayakovsky killed himself because of Lilya Brik." "No, he killed himself because of me."
Veronika Vitoldovna Polonskaya, the last love of Vladimir Mayakovsky
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And do you know what else hardly anyone is discussing?
And do you know what else hardly anyone is discussing? That Robert Maxwell, father of Epstein's partner in crime, was the architect of the peer review system. So. A media magnate, about whom there are quite serious and widely discussed allegations of ties to Israeli intelligence, or at
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The Descendants of Anika Sergeyev, Son of Yeltsyn
The family tree of Boris Yeltsin, compiled by Dmitry Panov and published in 1992 in Perm by the Association of Amateur Genealogists, goes back to Anika Sergeyev, son of Yeltsyn, who lived in the middle of the eighteenth century. The family hails from the Shadrinsk District of Perm Governorate, where