Observations · Science · Society
Perhaps this is merely the opinion of a man wearied by endless examinations in philosophy. But one would like, at long last, to demolish the noxious machinery of the Hegelian interpretation of history. Or at the very least to separate all existing political ideologies from his concept of the Absolute
The East · Geography · Society
By the Treaty of Gulistan, concluded after the first Russo-Persian War of 1804–1813, Persia recognised the transfer to Russia of Dagestan, Eastern Georgia (that is, Kartli-Kakheti), Imereti, Mingrelia, Guria and Abkhazia, as well as the Karabakh, Ganja, Sheki, Shirvan, Quba, Baku, Derbent and Talysh khanates of Northern
Almaty · Archive · The East · Society
The photographs of the 2nd and 3rd Separate Sotnias of the 2nd Semirechye Cossack Regiment were taken in the vicinity of the city of Mashhad in the province of Khorasan. The Semireki knew the local realities perfectly well, drawing on their experience of life in Turkestan. They found their way
In the Press · Science · Society
📌 A living sea. Kazakhstan has solved the environmental problem of the North Aral 📌 “Ministerial furniture” at a royal price in Versailles 📌 The French Senate has approved the restitution of cultural property, while the security services approve the liquidation of African political leaders 📌 The Russians have won! What the American newspapers
Monarchies · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris
A few days ago at the Louvre, a portrait of the loathsome Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, stripped of his title of Prince, was stuck to a wall. The news calls the people who did it activists. Naturally, they have some political or moral justification for their demonstration. In principle, after all,
Books · Monarchies · Society · Humour
Our men of ill repute... judge themselves and pardon themselves Ivan the Terrible, in his letter to Prince Kurbsky and in his epistle to Archbishop Pimen of Novgorod, 1570s
Observations · Heritage · Society · Pop Culture
A studio with thirty full-time employees and a host of outside consulting firms worked on the game for seven years, yet it is estimated to have sold fewer than 2,000 copies. Although nobody is actually playing Relooted (in Russian, Pereukradeno), it has received wide coverage in the leading
NB! · Museums · Observations · Society · Paris · Humour
Following her resignation, the Louvre's disastrous director has been appointed to a "new prestigious post" within France's G7 presidency. Personnel decide everything
Monarchies · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris
French President Emmanuel Macron announced the appointment of the 63-year-old Leribault at a meeting of the Council of Ministers. Leribault is an art historian who has previously worked at the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Petit Palais and Versailles. This may prove a strategic turning point
NB! · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris · Humour
Well, well: the Director of the Louvre has finally resigned. She wrecked whatever she could, and we may at least be thankful she did not burn the place down
Mores · Society · People
- Which Indians do you mean? Those whose population has grown considerably under the British Empire, or the native Americans, who have now all but died out? Yet when Churchill's stronger remarks about the peoples colonised by Britain are quoted, such as the comparison of the inhabitants of India
Archive · Observations · Society · Paris
We understand, of course, that this is an ideological construct fashioned by the Bolsheviks after the fact, for the sake of appearances, so to speak: a justification of their own model of dictatorship and an attempt to legitimise their regime by ascribing to the Commune ideological premises it never came