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Death of Empress Catherine II at the Winter Palace on 17 November 1796, aged 67
On 17 November 1796, Catherine II died in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. The Empress was 67 years old
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Los Angeles artist Alex Schaefer paints burning banks during the 2008 recession
Perhaps the chief hater of the American banking system has been found. The contemporary Los Angeles artist Alex Schaefer rose to international fame when, during the great American recession of 2008, he began painting fantastical, politically charged plein-air pictures showing bank branches on fire, major bank holding companies in
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A very sad find: Gesina ter Borch, an artist of the Dutch Golden Age, drew her brother Moses, to whom death creeps up from behind a tree and rows towards in a boat, and her sister Elteken, whom death leads through a church
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Love Story, a drawing by Viktor Tsoy created in 1987
Love Story, Viktor Tsoi. 1987
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Twelve lathes of Peter the Great in the Hermitage, one in Peter's Winter Palace
Peter the Great's lathe in Peter's Winter Palace. In all, the Hermitage has preserved 12 lathes from the workshop of Peter the Great; he used all of them, depending on the task and the material that needed working, wood or bone.
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The Life of Saint Martin, the Cloak Story and the Relic of the French Kings
Saint Martin and the Beggar. El Greco, 1597-1599. The episode of the cloak and the beggar is the best known in the life of Saint Martin. The Serbian bishop Nikolai Velimirovich gives the following version: Martin was born to pagan parents in the Pannonian town of Sabaria in the
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Still life with a basket of plums painted by Louise Moillon in 1629
What a Longing for a Plum! And also for forcing oneself to believe that this picture of a basket of plums was painted in 1629 by the French artist Louise Moillon! Louise Moillon won renown for her exact still lifes. In the course of her life she produced only some
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The artist Lotte, who emigrated to Sweden, and her painting “Evening over Potsdam”
Lotte Laserstein painted "Evening over Potsdam" in 1930, in response to the Nazi Party winning 18% of the vote at the elections. When these people came to power, Lotte, the first woman admitted to the Berlin Academy of Arts and a graduate with distinction, was persecuted as a
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There is no historical fatality; there is only a historical Nemesis, which punishes those who dithered when it was still possible to act
The Austrian socio-political theorist Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn. Illustration: Sergey Yukhimov
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Exhibition of Vera Yermolayeva's works at Galeev Gallery until 13 November
The final week of the remarkable exhibition "Faith in Yermolayeva" is under way at Galeev Gallery. It is not merely a weighty event from the curatorial point of view, but also an important account of Vera Yermolayeva (1893-1937), whose name, though little known, has become one of
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Maria Bashkirtseva’s 1876 diary entry on how her father and others treat her
I can only admire myself: people yield to me, flatter me and, what is more important, love me. Father, who at first wished to cast me down from the throne, has now almost fully understood why I am shown royal honours, and, despite a certain hardness of character, shows them