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Strange as it may seem, Pushkin and Eugene Onegin are mentioned in Epstein's correspondence. The context is yet another girl whom he is being urged to take on. It is reported that she is connected to the Russian imperial family, and that her great-great-grandfather, a certain
NB! · Aristocracy · Observations · Society
Archive · Society · People
The family tree of Boris Yeltsin, compiled by Dmitry Panov and published in 1992 in Perm by the Association of Amateur Genealogists, goes back to Anika Sergeyev, son of Yeltsyn, who lived in the middle of the eighteenth century. The family hails from the Shadrinsk District of Perm Governorate, where
Cinema · Observations · Society
Remember how in "The Death of Stalin" Beria rushes frantically to break open the safe in the leader's study and removes a folder of documents from it? And yet Beria was credited with crimes similar to Epstein's line of business...
Observations · Society · Humour
The Russian Federation has officially declined to call itself the successor of the Russian Empire, so as not to pay the debts of its pre-revolutionary obligations. The USSR, for its part, had repudiated the foreign debt back in 1918. You understand, talk of the great past is another matter
Coming Up · Architecture · Society
In just a week the 2026 Winter Olympic Games will open in Milan and Cortina
Architecture · Observations · Society · Rome
From Monday, a close-up view of Rome's iconic Trevi Fountain will cost money. The price for tourists and non-residents of Rome is 2 euros. The system will operate daily from 09:00 to 22:00, except on Mondays and Fridays, when public access will open at
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Should any boyar, okolnichy, Duma man, clerk (dyak), or other judge, whether for bribes, for friendship, or for enmity, convict the innocent plaintiff or defendant and acquit the guilty, and the matter be proven true, then from such judges the plaintiff's claim shall be recovered threefold and given
Architecture · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg
A UNESCO World Heritage Centre mission has arrived in Saint Petersburg to inspect one of the largest sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the “Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg”. The previous visit of this kind took place in 2018. In Saint Petersburg a single site is under UNESCO protection:
Moscow · Museums · Society
In 2025, over 22 million people visited museums and exhibitions under the Moscow Department of Culture. That is 30% more than the year before. The most popular were the Museum of Moscow, the museum-reserves “Tsaritsyno”, “Ostankino and Kuskovo”, “Kolomenskoye — Izmailovo”, and the Darwin Museum.
Society · Pop Culture · Humour
Minayev five minutes later:
Architecture · Society
The tallest unoccupied building in the world is the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea. It is also known as the "Hotel of Doom". Construction of the hotel began in 1987, but was suspended in 1992 owing to the economic difficulties that beset the country after the collapse