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The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. The prize was conferred on him “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. In Russia, the author&
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Gentlemen, Moscow and every other Russian capitalists! Will you let the French, Germans, Swedes, English and Americans exploit this Russian wealth too and make a handsome profit from it, or will you think of taking it yourselves, when it is pointed out to you once more as a great lucrative
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A relaxed attitude to luxury means painting your own name on a Louis Vuitton trunk in white paint. Which is exactly what Paul Poiret did.
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Schema-Archimandrite Elijah (1932-2025)
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A historic event took place in Great Britain today: for the first time in the 1,400-year history of the Anglican Church, a woman has been appointed Archbishop of Canterbury: Sarah Mullally. Her candidacy was approved by King Charles III, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer officially announced the decision.
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Julio Peña plays Miguel de Cervantes. The action unfolds in 1575, and the narrative draws on the real biography of the author of Don Quixote. As attentive readers will remember, many years before he wrote the greatest novel of all time, Cervantes was a captive of Algerian pirates. Saavedra recounts
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📌 The story of the circus performer Matryona Rasputina, daughter of Grigory Rasputin 📌 666 degrees Celsius. The forecast of the end of the world by Isaac Newton 📌 The financing of the 1917 revolution and other insidious geopolitical projects of Germany 📌 The oldest Christian monastery in the Sinai desert is under threat
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For more than forty years now I have watched from my dacha window this picture of ships sailing past. We had a game: who could make out a name first. Little by little I grasped a certain regularity: the two-deckers were given the names of poets: "Akhmatova"
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Anna Akhmatova on old age
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The beautiful frescoes of Mikhail Nesterov in the Church of Alexander Nevsky at Abastumani in Georgia. This is a unique case: the entire interior of the church was painted in fresco by Nesterov himself, without the help of other artists: 56 compositions in 8 years. Nesterov's biography in
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Voloshin began living in Koktebel in 1907: his mother, Elena Ottobaldovna Kirienko-Voloshina, whom the poet and his friends called "Pra", from the word for "foremother", bought a plot of land here and began building a dacha. In 1908 the "Poet's House"