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Yegor Larichkin, accused in the case of the murder of Mikhail Gertsenshtein, together with his guards at a window of the building where the court sessions were held. Terijoki, Grand Duchy of Finland, 1909. Now Zelenogorsk, a district of Saint Petersburg. The Russian Empire we have lost
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Gymnastics for Young Ladies, Adapted to Their Various Ages, for Public and Domestic Education. Adopted as a guide in the Saint Petersburg institutes under the Department of the Institutions of Empress Maria. The author, a doctor of medicine and surgery, described exercises intended specifically for women. The doctor held that
Architecture · Monarchies · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The Palace of Monplaisir was built to designs by Peter the Great. Whenever the Emperor came to Peterhof, he would usually stay here, in one of his favourite palaces. The interiors were adorned with Dutch tiles, wood carving, lacquer panels, stucco and painted ceilings. The floors of the galleries and
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The funeral of Anna Akhmatova, 10 March 1966. Second from the left is Yevgeny Rein, beside him Arseny Tarkovsky. At the coffin is Alexey Panteleyev, and behind him Joseph Brodsky.
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From 1 December, the basic price of a Hermitage ticket will be 700 roubles. Revenue from ticket sales will go towards improving infrastructure, above all security systems, creating a comfortable environment for exhibits and visitors, free charitable tours and inclusive programmes
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I love the priest's unhurried step, The broad bearing-out of the winding-sheet, And in the worn-out net, the Gennesaret gloom Of the weeks of Great Lent. The Old Testament smoke on the warm altars And the priest's lonely cry, The regal humble man:
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On this day 120 years ago, 17 (30) October 1905, Emperor Nicholas II issued the Supreme Manifesto granting legislative power to the State Duma and establishing the political rights and freedoms of citizens. It proclaimed, in particular: To grant the population the unshakeable foundations of civil liberty, based on the
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
At times it seems to me that museums of classical art are temples not so much of beauty as of discipline, intellectual discipline included, naturally. We often go there not for inspiration but for confirmation that our world can still be explained, at least a little. And yet, after dozens
Faith · Art · Books · Museums · Saint Petersburg
He draws near, but soon I lose myself, and in my sleep I see a storm, I see the sea And maidens laughing on its floor. He knows the abysses of earthly, dark unbelief, and he grieves, And lets fall his shining feathers, And timidly gazes into my soul. And,
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There are three versions of the painting "The Lute Player". One is kept in the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg. The second belongs to the collection of the Wildenstein family, the well-known French art dealers. The third was until recently considered a copy. In 1969 specialists from Sotheby&
Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies · Mores · Saint Petersburg
Interior of the study of Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dolgorukaya, the first Most Serene Princess Yuryevskaya, in her house on the English Embankment in Saint Petersburg. Photograph of 1876. Princess Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dolgorukova (Dolgorukaya), from 1880 Most Serene Princess Yuryevskaya (1847 to 1922), was the second, morganatic, wife of Emperor Alexander II;