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Yesterday the National Award for Cultural Managers was presented for the first time at the Theatre of Nations

Yesterday the National Award for Cultural Managers was presented for the first time at the Theatre of Nations. If you remember, we have followed this story from the very beginning, from the moment the award was first proposed. We watched the idea take concrete shape, and now we have seen

Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society

According to Arkhnadzor, more than 25 historic buildings were demolished in the capital last year

According to Arkhnadzor, more than 25 historic buildings were demolished in the capital last year. Among them were examples of Constructivism, eighteenth-century structures and monuments of federal significance: The House of Culture of the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers in Novosushchevsky Lane Construction of the building began in the

Archive · Monarchies · Society · Saint Petersburg

No, this is not a Russian tsar, not a tsar of the land, such as the people imagined him, from whom they awaited justice; this is simply a Petersburg emperor, born of German parents, sent for from across the sea to inherit the throne

From the newspaper Obshchee veche [The General Assembly], published by Ogarev and Kelsiyev. On Nicholas I, as you will have guessed. 1862

Faith · London · Monarchies · Observations · Society

Anglican Bishop Cairion Hugh Dewar Publishes an Open Letter to King Charles III, Urging Him to Play More Actively His Traditional Role as Defender of the Christian Faith and to Pay Particular Attention to Preserving Britain's Christian Heritage

In the bishop's view, Christianity in the country is gradually losing its influence in public life, while its symbols and values are ever more often criticised or pushed out of the public sphere. He voiced concern that the country may lose its historical religious foundation and turn into

Art · Moscow · Heritage · Society

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in overalls and a sarafan in the colours of the Russian tricolour, sewn by the Monolit textile association in 1998

The decision to dress the sculpture was taken to draw attention to the preservation of a monument that in the 1990s had fallen into an extremely lamentable, dilapidated state. It is reported that in those years one of the petty officials was ready to sell the monument for scrap metal

Geography · Cinema · Monarchies · Society · Nature

King Charles III Opens a Path Bearing His Own Name at the Seven Sisters National Nature Reserve in Seaford, East Sussex

The King Charles III Trail is a new walking route of 2,700 miles running along the entire coast of England. From Newhaven the trail skirts Seaford Bay, passes through Tide Mills to the Seaford seafront, then heads out to the chalk cliffs of Seaford Head, the Seven Sisters and

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Decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna of 14 December 1742 on the withdrawal from circulation of coins bearing the image of the deposed Ivan Antonovich: part of the systematic obliteration of the memory of the overthrown infant emperor, whom Elizabeth remov

Whereas by the most gracious decree of Her Imperial Majesty, published among the people on 31 December of the past year 1741, it was ordered that coins bearing the portrait of Prince Ivan, in whosoever's hands they may be, be brought for exchange to the mints until the

Faith · The East · Society

Let us recall the teaching of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem:

When you see the desolation of the holy place, know that what the Lord warned of is drawing near. Do not say: this is impossible. It is precisely the impossible that comes to pass in the last times Christ warned his disciples of the coming end of the world shortly

Faith · The East · Heritage · Society

For the first time in the history of Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is closed indefinitely

For the first time in the history of Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is closed indefinitely. The closure was ordered by the Israeli authorities. Holy Week and Easter services in the Church are forbidden, and Sunday masses and divine services have been cancelled. In the coming weeks the

Books · Society

If the land belonged to a bank or a trust, the intermediary would say: the bank, the trust needs this and that; the bank, the trust insists, demands… – as though the bank or the trust were some kind of monsters, endowed with the ability to think and feel,

If the land belonged to a bank or a trust, the intermediary would say: the bank, the trust needs this and that; the bank, the trust insists, demands… – as though the bank or the trust were some kind of monsters, endowed with the ability to think and feel, monsters that

Art · Books · Science · Society

In 1921 Walter Benjamin wrote a short text, "Critique of Violence", which is now counted among the most uncomfortable philosophical texts of the twentieth century

Because it describes a mechanism we have grown accustomed not to notice. Benjamin distinguishes two kinds of violence. The first is law-making violence, by which power establishes itself. The second is law-preserving violence, by which power guards itself every day. The police, according to Benjamin, are an especially

Archive · Architecture · Books · Education · Society · Saint Petersburg

In February 1937 the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers opened in the Anichkov Palace, today the Saint Petersburg City Palace of Youth Creativity

Before that, after the Revolution, the city museum had existed here for a short time; it was closed in 1925, and until 1927 the same premises also housed the Higher Courses of Municipal Economy. The Palace continued to operate even in the hard years of the Siege: clubs were open,