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Eight of Chopin's waltzes appeared in his lifetime, the E minor waltz after his death in 1868
Riyad Mammadov Performs Chopin's Waltz in E Minor for Piano. Chopin is the author of some 20 waltzes. Only 8 were published in the composer's lifetime, and another 9 entered the complete edition, which appeared after the death of Frédéric Nikolayevich. The exquisite E minor waltz
Faith · People · Pop Culture · Rome · Humour
Pope Francis visits a music shop without a cortege, arriving in a Fiat 500 with Vatican plates
Yesterday evening the Pope slipped out of the Vatican and was caught leaving the StereoSound music shop near the Pantheon. Francis likes not only mischievous escapades but also classical music, Beethoven, Mozart and Bach above all, so why not combine the two passions, he thought? All the more so as
Mores · Pop Culture · Humour
You: Hello, colleagues, today our meeting will be held on Zoom
Your dad in the background:
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On 1 January, three weeks short of her hundredth birthday, Betty White, star of The Golden Girls, died
On 1 January, three weeks short of her hundredth birthday, Betty White, star of The Golden Girls, died. She began her career as early as 1939, in the series The Merry Widow. Rest in peace
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Who would have thought it: the beauty Milla Jovovich is 46 today!
Who would have thought it: the beauty Milla Jovovich is 46 today! And yet she remains the exact contemporary of her Leeloo and her Joan of Arc
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
The Hermitage presents the exhibition “Beauty and Style” on the history of fashion photography
Why does everything most beautiful happen just before New Year? The exhibition “Beauty and Style. A History of Fashion Photography. From the Collection of the Still Art Foundation” at the Department of Contemporary Art of the State Hermitage Museum. It presents the photographers’ own prints by Erwin Blumenfeld, Horst P.
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What do you make of the interior?
What do you make of the interior? To my eye, the only thing missing from the frame is Timati
NB! · People · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
Sophie Marceau and the Church of the Saviour on Blood
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Gillian Anderson shares photos from costume fittings on the set of the second series of "The Great", a free-spirited take on the life of Catherine II
Gillian Anderson has shared photos from costume fittings on the set of the second series of "The Great", a free-spirited take on the life of Catherine II. The incomparable Gillian plays Johanna of Holstein-Gottorp, mother of the Russian Empress
Aristocracy · Mores · People · Pop Culture
Gloria von Schönburg-Glauchau married Prince of Thurn und Taxis and became the punk princess
Meet Princess Gloria of Thurn and Taxis, née Countess von Schönburg-Glauchau. A great many nineteenth-century novels began with this very plot: a girl from an impoverished noble family marries a wealthy man much older than herself... In 1980 the dutiful Catholic Gloria agreed to become the wife of
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Actress Nina Urgant, who appeared in “Belorussky Station”, dies in her 93rd year
Today we lost one of the brightest actresses of Soviet theatre and cinema, a beauty, a lyrical heroine and a refined, cultivated woman: Nina Urgant. Nina Nikolayevna passed away in her 93rd year. Naturally, everyone has now recalled the song that became a beloved anthem of the whole nation, "