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London · Museums · Heritage · Society

The famous Bayeux Tapestry, created in the eleventh century for Bishop Odo, brother of William the Conqueror, will leave France for an exhibition at the British Museum

Historically, the tapestry (in essence a piece of linen embroidery almost 70 metres long) has been kept in the Norman town of Bayeux as a monument to the Norman conquest of England. The other day a French court permitted the temporary transportation of this fragile relic to Great Britain, despite

Art · Society · Paris

"Seated Nude with Necklace": a painting from Modigliani's only solo exhibition in his lifetime, held in December 1917 at Berthe Weill's gallery in Paris

The Paris police judged the nudes displayed in the window indecent and closed the show. That is to say, the exhibition was quite literally shut down on account of this very painting. Sotheby's is offering it with an estimate of around 60 million dollars

Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Society

Well, Muscovites will long remember the architect Kuznetsov and other officials of the city administration with kind words, as they look at the gaps in the historic fabric of the centre, filled with highly valuable items of elite real estate

Well, Muscovites will long remember the architect Kuznetsov and other officials of the city administration with kind words, as they look at the gaps in the historic fabric of the centre, filled with highly valuable items of elite real estate. Take, for instance, the site of the former Baldina apartment

Faith · Madrid · Monarchies · Society

Leo XIV has flown into Madrid at the start of a six-day visit to Spain, to be held under the motto "raise your gaze"

Leo XIV has flown into Madrid at the start of a six-day visit to Spain, to be held under the motto "raise your gaze". The country is passing through difficult times, especially as regards the unity of its people: society is quite literally split over migration, abortion

Archive · Society

On 20 January 1991 the first referendum in the history of the USSR was held in Crimea, with the following question put to the vote: "Are you in favour of the re-establishment of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic as a subject of the USSR and

The right to vote was held by 1,777,841 people. The referendum was attended by 1,441,019 voters, which amounted to 81.37 % of the total number registered. The restoration of autonomy was supported by 1,343,855 people, that is 93.26 % of those who voted. Against

Archaeology · Faith · Observations · Society · Ethnography

In Lima, ahead of the presidential run-off, shamans gathered on Herradura beach and blessed portraits of both candidates, Fujimori and López Aliaga

In Lima, ahead of the presidential run-off, shamans gathered on Herradura beach and blessed portraits of both candidates, Fujimori and López Aliaga. The rite is repeated there every year and before every vote, and it is no exotica staged for the amusement of tourists but a living example of

Faith · Art · Society

The United States Has Its Own Heavenly Patroness, and She Is Our Lady Immaculate, or the Virgin Mary Immaculata

The American bishops proclaimed her patroness of the country in May 1846, eight years before the Vatican made the Immaculate Conception a dogma. The Immaculate Conception is one of the most widely reproduced images in Western art: a maiden in white and blue, a crescent moon beneath her feet, twelve

Books · Observations · Society

Ivan the Terrible and Kurbsky exchanged "letters" that were not a correspondence but a literary duel, staged for the public and meant for the judgement of posterity

Ivan the Terrible and Kurbsky exchanged "letters" that were not a correspondence but a literary duel, staged for the public and meant for the judgement of posterity. Both understood that they would be read far beyond the Lithuanian border. The open letter is a genre with a catch.

Faith · Interviews · Observations · Society · Pop Culture · Humour

Well, That's a Turn-Up!

Well, that's a turn-up! Candace Owens in the studio of "Parsuna" with Vladimir Legoyda. The mission "from Twitter to the Paterikon" has officially begun. Congratulations to the team, and to Vladimir Romanovich personally! We await the broadcast, we are preparing our dogmatic remarks,

Archaeology · Art · Books · Monarchies · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Science · Society

“What is our life?

“What is our life? A tale we shall not recall twice, once it has been told,” runs the thought from Byron’s “Don Juan”, and so at the end of every month we reassemble the key publications that can be reread and kept in memory. Archaeology and the origins of

Books · Society

International Biographers Organisation names winner of the 2026 Plutarch Award for best biography of 2025

The International Biographers Organisation has named the winner of the 2026 Plutarch Award for the best biography of 2025. It is Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade. The jury noted her original approach to Stein's life and work and her contribution to the very understanding of the

Faith · Observations · Mores · Society

Catholic Salesian nuns from San Antonio, long-standing fans of the Spurs basketball club, blessed their favourite player Luke Cornet before the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder

It is curious that the Oklahoma City Thunder, for their part, have been holding a public prayer of invocation before every home game, ahead of the anthem, for 20 years now. One is struck, on the one hand, by how actively the Christian denominations are involved in public life in