Monarchies · People · Pop Culture
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark in a raincoat she designed herself. It was sewn by her friend, the couturier Jørgen Bender, in 1995 from a tablecloth that Margrethe had bought at the Peter Jones department store in London and brought to the atelier, asking him to make a cheerful garment
NB! · Art · Moscow · People
At the blazar young art fair, the independent artists' section presents works by Anna Kass, artist and daughter of Sergey Sobyanin. Anna is a graduate of the Stieglitz Academy and the Moscow School of Contemporary Art. Anna's photographs are on sale at 40,000 roubles each
Aristocracy · Monarchies · People
Old Charles is not the first Charles III in English history. Under that name, in 1766-1788, there was known the Jacobite claimant to the English and Scottish thrones, the penultimate representative of the House of Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie. But the earlier Charles III had a rather joyless and
Aristocracy · Monarchies · People
Lady Pam, as she is usually called in society, is a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, descending from her second daughter, Princess Alice of the United Kingdom. Lady Pamela Hicks is a first cousin of the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and was a bridesmaid at his wedding
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Art · Museums · People
In the 1890s Repin began to suffer pains in his right hand: from constant painting, a gradual atrophy of the muscles between the thumb and forefinger was developing. The artist could no longer paint with his right hand, and the pain would not even let him hold a palette in
Architecture · Heritage · People
The architect Luis Barragán's own house, built in 1947 in Tacubaya, Mexico. Barragán, one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century, lived in this house until 1988. It was originally designed merely as an extension to his studio, but in the end it is now recognised
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Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed in the lift of the Paris Ritz on 30 August 1997, the last day before their deaths. The third person in the lens of the surveillance camera is Claude Roulet, assistant to the president of the Ritz hotel
Faith · Monarchies · People
Bernard of Clairvaux, who is shown on icons receiving milk from the breast of the Virgin Mary, is regarded as the man behind Pope Eugene III, who had been his pupil and heeded his opinion. It was Bernard of Clairvaux who was the ideologue of the Crusade against the Slavs
Faith · Art · People
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Drinks the Breast Milk of the Virgin Mary, Who Is Nursing the Infant Jesus. This curious subject spread from Spain and is connected with an apocryphal tale of a vision of the Abbot of Clairvaux, in which the Mother of God directed a jet of her
Monarchies · Society · Paris · People
The first French journalist to mount the scaffold in the years of the Terror was Barnabé Farmian Durosoy. Before his death he left a note: "A royalist such as I should die on the Feast of Saint Louis." Saint Louis died on 25 August 1270. Durosoy died on
The East · Monarchies · People · Saint Petersburg
In 1790 a delegation of Greek captains arrived in Saint Petersburg to meet Catherine the Great and to ask her, in the name of the Greek people, for help in their struggle against the Turks. But the chief point of the Souliots' appeal was a request that Catherine give