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🇩🇰 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary at the presentation of the Queen's portrait, marking her 80th birthday, at Frederiksborg Castle

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🇩🇰 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary at the presentation of the Queen's portrait, marking her 80th birthday, at Frederiksborg Castle

🇩🇰 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary at the presentation of the Queen's portrait, marking her 80th birthday, at Frederiksborg Castle. All in all, I still have but one question for this charming and modest queen, in every respect: who styles you, my

By Alexandr Radayev
After the wedding ceremony on 14 May 1962, the Greek princess Sophia and the Spanish prince Juan Carlos (the future King and Queen of Spain) set off for the royal palace in Athens in a carriage drawn by six horses

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After the wedding ceremony on 14 May 1962, the Greek princess Sophia and the Spanish prince Juan Carlos (the future King and Queen of Spain) set off for the royal palace in Athens in a carriage drawn by six horses

After the wedding ceremony on 14 May 1962, the Greek princess Sophia and the Spanish prince Juan Carlos (the future King and Queen of Spain) set off for the royal palace in Athens in a carriage drawn by six horses. The carriage is a far from ordinary one: it was

By Alexandr Radayev
The heart of the exhibition, as Max Boxer himself puts it, is a special space that holds exclusively family things: the works of his father, Anatoly Boxer, his grandmother's personal belongings, furniture from his mother's flat, remember…

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The heart of the exhibition, as Max Boxer himself puts it, is a special space that holds exclusively family things: the works of his father, Anatoly Boxer, his grandmother's personal belongings, furniture from his mother's flat, remember…

The heart of the exhibition, as Max Boxer himself puts it, is a special space that holds exclusively family things: the works of his father, Anatoly Boxer, his grandmother's personal belongings, furniture from his mother's flat (remember, I wrote of how she lamented the emptying of

By Alexandr Radayev
At a lecture by the publisher Natalia Semenova at Club 418 I learnt that Vermeer's "Allegory of Faith" was bought as a painting of dubious attribution, or at any rate with a forged signature on it

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At a lecture by the publisher Natalia Semenova at Club 418 I learnt that Vermeer's "Allegory of Faith" was bought as a painting of dubious attribution, or at any rate with a forged signature on it

At a lecture by the publisher Natalia Semenova at Club 418 I learnt that Vermeer's "Allegory of Faith" was bought as a painting of dubious attribution, or at any rate with a forged signature on it. It found its way into the collection of Dmitry Ivanovich

By Alexandr Radayev
At the Veuve Clicquot Award I learnt that Madame Clicquot was widowed very young and inherited rich wine cellars which it was DANGEROUS to enter, owing to the shards of exploding champagne bottles, so that the wine vaults could only be visited…

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At the Veuve Clicquot Award I learnt that Madame Clicquot was widowed very young and inherited rich wine cellars which it was DANGEROUS to enter, owing to the shards of exploding champagne bottles, so that the wine vaults could only be visited…

At the Veuve Clicquot Award I learnt that Madame Clicquot was widowed very young and inherited rich wine cellars which it was DANGEROUS to enter, owing to the shards of exploding champagne bottles, so that the wine vaults could only be visited in special protective suits, against the explosions. Sounds

By Alexandr Radayev
I was very lucky on Monday, the museum day, to find myself at the colossal Repin exhibition and, avoiding queues and crowds, to see 300 works gathered over 3 floors from 21 Russian and 7 foreign museums and 7 private collections: nothing like it…

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I was very lucky on Monday, the museum day, to find myself at the colossal Repin exhibition and, avoiding queues and crowds, to see 300 works gathered over 3 floors from 21 Russian and 7 foreign museums and 7 private collections: nothing like it…

I was very lucky on Monday, the museum day, to find myself at the colossal Repin exhibition and, avoiding queues and crowds, to see 300 works gathered over 3 floors from 21 Russian and 7 foreign museums and 7 private collections: nothing like it has been seen for 25 years.

By Alexandr Radayev
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