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How Does the Flow of Information Affect Our Lives?
How does the flow of information affect our lives? Veronika Kandaurova asked me about my attitude to it for a piece in «RBC Style». In short: I have never been dependent on the existing formats of media distribution on the internet, and I advise no one else to be. On
In the Press · Cinema · Observations
If you haven't yet got round to my series on Wink, you can add my new video on Amediateka to your watchlist
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An American Parcel for East Germany with a False Bottom
An American parcel for East Germany with a false bottom. Krokodil magazine, 1953
In the Press · Art · Observations · Humour
The Guardian carries an amusing little item on how Silvio Berlusconi's heirs were astonished to learn that a collection of some 25,000 paintings, on which he may have spent around 20 million euros, consists largely of worthless daubs
The former Prime Minister of Italy devoted several years of his life to collecting and, as so often happens, put his trust in dealers and in his own exquisite taste. He acquired entire galleries of portraits of churchmen, Madonnas, nude women, views of favourite cities and landscapes, at prices starting
Archaeology · In the Press · The East · Science
In 1913 a number of English-language newspapers carried an article claiming that several temple-like chambers had been discovered inside the Great Sphinx
In 1913 a number of English-language newspapers carried an article claiming that several temple-like chambers had been discovered inside the Great Sphinx. The text reported that there was a fairly large room both inside the head and inside the body, and that in one of these chambers small
Archive · In the Press · Moscow · Mores
Arrested: Perevedentsev, the yard-keeper of house No. 49 on Serpukhovskaya Street
Arrested: Perevedentsev, the yard-keeper of house No. 49 on Serpukhovskaya Street. The matter is this: when the police set up an ambush in one of the flats of the house, the yard-keeper warned every person making for that flat that those who came there were being detained. "
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Listen to me on Radio Mayak, on the programme “Understand Yourself If You Can”, with Artem Novichenkov and Vladislav Timkin
Aristocracy · Archive · In the Press · Monarchies
The Moscow Romanovs took their wives from Russian noble families, and their blood was purely Russian blood
But from Peter the Great onwards it became the custom to marry the heirs to the throne to foreigners, chiefly Germans, and the Russian ruling dynasty turned into a thoroughbred non-Russian one. By the statutes of English horse-breeding, the "Stud Book" that is authoritative the world
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Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich (1891-1942), grandson of Alexander II and first cousin of Nicholas II, pictured far left, took part in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm
Dmitry Pavlovich was a member of the Russian equestrian team, the sport having been added to the Olympic programme that year. The team had already won the steeplechase in London, taking the prize of King Edward VII. At the Olympics, however, in none of the disciplines (eventing, jumping and dressage)
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"Beware, Brother!" The Ghost of Louis XVI Appeals to Nicholas II on the Cover of the American Satirical Weekly Puck, 8 February 1905, Shortly after Bloody Sunday
Frank A. Nankivell's illustration, with its voice from the past, urged the Russian autocrat to heed the entreaties of his subjects, that he might avoid the guillotine already visible on the horizon. He did not heed them
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