Faith · Society · People
30 May marks the 595th anniversary of the execution of Joan of Arc in the Old Market Square in Rouen. Today the day is observed in France as a national holiday, and in the Catholic Church as the Memorial of Saint Joan of Arc. Formally, she was charged with heresy,
NB! · Paris · People
Archive · Books · Science · People
The librarian of the Rumyantsev Museum and philosopher of the "Common Task" Nikolai Fyodorov held that humanity is obliged to resurrect literally all its dead ancestors. By what means? By technical effort, or rather by the collective effort of reason. Tolstoy knew him, read him, argued with him,
NB! · Art · People · Humour
Artists Jest. Vasily Vereshchagin
Archive · Mores · People · Saint Petersburg
At the centre of the photograph, in Russian costume, sits the 82-year-old Vladimir Stasov, host of the evening. Behind him, to his right, is Fyodor Chaliapin; at the piano, Felix Blumenfeld; on other evenings, Cesar Cui and Rachmaninoff would occupy that place. The eye is caught by Stasov&
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Architecture · Art · Moscow · Heritage · People
A new monument to Alexander Tairov and Alisa Koonen, founders of Moscow's legendary Kamerny Theatre, on Tverskoy Boulevard, where they staged upheavals and discoveries in world theatre. Today the Kamerny is called legendary because it has literally entered the textbooks and become part of the great heritage of
Society · People · Saint Petersburg
Galina Starovoitova would have turned 80 today, but she was murdered in 1998
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Cinema · People · Nature
Tippi, whose full name is Natalie, is the mother of the actress Melanie Griffith and the grandmother of Dakota Johnson. In 1969, with her second husband, Noel Marshall, she made the film Roar, which became one of the most dangerous productions in the history of cinema. In the plot, the
The East · Science · Society · People
In 2022 a Swiss programmer from Lausanne, Solal Pirelli, while going through the proceedings of conferences held under the aegis of the Association for Computing Machinery, discovered systematic anomalies in volumes published under the chairmanship of the Jordanian computer scientist Shadi Aljawarneh of the Jordan University of Science and Technology.
Aristocracy · The East · Monarchies · Mores · People
The title "Queen of the Hellenes", rather than "Queen of Greece", is not diplomatic courtesy but a political declaration. Olga Konstantinovna Romanova was a granddaughter of Nicholas I and a daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich. In 1867, at the age of sixteen, she married King