Aristocracy · Faith · Monarchies · Paris · People
In 2013, at the Monastery of the Protection of the Mother of God in Bussy-en-Othe, some hundred kilometres from Paris, the nun Elizabeth of Leuchtenberg peacefully departed to the Lord. She was one of the last Russian nuns of the first wave of emigration and, at the same
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A poster for the evening held by Vasily Kamensky in memory of Mayakovsky at the Bolshoi Theatre. Vasily Kamensky was a Futurist poet and a close friend of Mayakovsky for more than ten years; after the latter's death he published several books about the poet's life.
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Yura Borisov Invited to Join the American Film Academy. Borisov is on a list of 534 performers and film industry professionals who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of the USA, the organisation that awards the Oscars each year. The list includes recent
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It is laughable to speak of literature now, because it is not the time of literature at all: visual practices have won a total victory and have entirely crushed the printed word. The word has been stripped of its former myth, and the influence of the visual will grow through
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The East · Science · Society · People
US Intervention in the Middle East Mapped onto the 11-Year Solar Cycle of Sunspot Activity. The theory linking warfare and revolutionary outbreaks on earth with the activity of the sun was first advanced by the Russian Soviet scientist Alexander Leonidovich Chizhevsky (1897-1964), a biophysicist and the founder of
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Life really begins only at 40; until then, you are merely conducting research
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Photo by Valentin Cheredintsev
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I read about Françoise Dumas, an 85-year-old Parisian society organiser and legend of the dinner party, who for the last 50 years has been engaged in the country's most important gala dinners, balls and other such rendezvous, is acquainted with royal and presidential families, and continues
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A small marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin, "Despair", from a private collection, was sold at auction for €1.1 million last weekend. It is reported that the owners had no idea of the work's value, taking the sculpture for a copy.