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Europe will be all right when we see its rulers at prayer in church, and not at pop concerts
It would be as well, of course, if they looked like Charles de Gaulle in church in 1960
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Martin Luther King and Archbishop Iakovos, the only clergyman not of African descent to take part in the march against racial discrimination
Cover pull-quote: Russia'a Fabulous Art Museum The Hermitage
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Brunello Cucinelli has dedicated his new campaign to books and written a very touching letter about the place of books in his life:
I am in love with books. I love them for the knowledge they give, for the fragrance they exude, for the rustle of turning pages, which seems to caress the soul. Like Voltaire, I have a weakness for old volumes and I treasure the words of their authors, whose wisdom
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Russian Translation of Journalist Michael Finkel's "The Art Thief" Published
A Russian translation of journalist Michael Finkel's book "The Art Thief" has been published. Two years ago it became a bestseller in the United States. Its hero is Stéphane Breitwieser, a young Frenchman with neither education nor profession, who between 1995 and 2001 stole more than
NB! · Monarchies · Moscow · People
Napoleon in the Kremlin
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You ask why I don't care for Le Corbusier?
You ask why I don't care for Le Corbusier? Because he led us from the first to the second
Art · Books · Museums · People · Saint Petersburg
Labouring for the glory of himself and his fatherland, and forever moving in society to divert his many friends with music, he fell in love with a certain lady, and the two of them took very great delight in their love
Labouring for the glory of himself and his fatherland, and forever moving in society to divert his many friends with music, he fell in love with a certain lady, and the two of them took very great delight in their love. But it so happened that in 1511 she caught
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The Dashing Equerry Who Captured the Queen's Heart: The English Press Tells of Elizabeth II's Secret "Beloved", Lord Plunket
The dashing equerry who captured the Queen's heart: the English press tells of Elizabeth II's secret "beloved", Patrick Plunket, Baron Plunket. He served the Queen for 25 years and kept the secret of their "love" to the end of his life
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Of the 80,200 roubles required in 1898-1899 to resettle 7,300 Doukhobor peasants in Canada, Leo Tolstoy contributed 34,200 roubles, taken from the publication of his novel "Resurrection"
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As promised, I return to my report on this season's fashion exhibitions in Paris
As promised, I return to my report on this season's fashion exhibitions in Paris. The large retrospective of the work of Paul Poiret will interest not only lovers of the history of costume, but indeed anyone enthralled by fashion and style. The exhibition at the Musée des Arts
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci. Head of a Young Woman
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Libraries in public spaces offer surprising finds, such as this rarity: a book by Oleg Sokolov, the infamous killer professor
The attitude to the creative work and writings of people with such a dark biography is, in truth, a thorny ethical question. When it came to Roman Polanski, his films, at least for me, were not something one wished to unsee, but Sokolov's book I would not pick