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Matryona Rasputina, Newton's forecast, Notre-Dame's bells and other topics in the digest
I have put together a digest of the most interesting posts that appeared on the channel in September:. 📌 The story of the circus performer Matryona Rasputina, daughter of Grigory Rasputin 📌 666 degrees Celsius. The forecast of the end of the world by Isaac Newton 📌 The financing of the 1917 revolution
Moscow · Observations · Society · Paris
It feels as though ticket prices of 45 to 65 euros for a concert by a second-tier ensemble in the Église de la Madeleine in Paris are about twice what they should be
One must learn to value the accessibility of culture and to attend events with more humane prices more actively: firstly, this supports the loyal institutions, and secondly, it helps to keep prices low. By way of comparison, not an entirely fair one, of course, tickets for the anniversary concert of
Observations · Society · People
How the names of ships seen from a dacha window changed over forty years
Alla Demidova on ships and their names:. For more than forty years now I have watched from my dacha window this picture of ships sailing past. We had a game: who could make out a name first. Little by little I grasped a certain regularity: the two-deckers were given
NB! · Architecture · Heritage · Society
According to the Russian Ministry of Culture, restoring all of Russia's cultural heritage sites would require around 1.7 TRILLION roubles
Faith · Society · Pop Culture · Rome
Deepfakes of Pope Leo XIV gather hundreds of thousands of views online
Vatican communications team says it has blocked hundreds of accounts posting AI-generated deepfakes since the start of Pope Leo XIV's pontificate. Some of the videos gather hundreds of thousands of views. Recently, for example, a fake 25-minute video of Pope Leo XIV commenting on the murder
NB! · Architecture · Mores · Society · Humour
Treatment by Palace: The Chief Achievement of Soviet Medicine
Art · Society · Paris
Artnet analysts compare auction art sales across countries for the first half of 2025
Against a backdrop of a 16.5% decline in global sales, the smallest fall was recorded in the United States, where sales totalled 2.2 billion dollars, only 1% lower than in the same period of 2024. China comes second after the United States, where sales fell by 26% compared
Books · Society · Humour
Nikolay Agnivtsev in 1925 on a primus stove that envied the Ford, and Kalinin's reply
The Primus stove is very Troubled, Ailing with something, Dissatisfied, Though he – a Primus – is first-rate. – Ah, in my grief I'll fling myself into the stove, Dash, Fling, Topple over… Why am I only a Primus, And not a "Ford". Literal translation In the end
Architecture · Observations · New York · Society · Humour
Trump accuses UN of embezzling billions in Secretariat building renovation
Trump has berated the UN for pocketing several billion on renovating the very building that houses its Secretariat. One has the feeling that the embezzlement of repair funds is the most elementary corruption practice in the world, running from the endless levies at school for redecorating a classroom to, as
Monarchies · Observations · Mores · Society
The King meets 116-year-old Ethel Caterham and the British custom of honouring the very old
The King of Britain has met the oldest of his subjects, 116-year-old Ethel Caterham. I sometimes remark on this gesture of British rulers: attention and respect towards the elderly, with special meetings for veterans, visits to the long-lived, and congratulatory messages. Much of this exists in our
Observations · Society
Women at 53.5% of the population per Rosstat and doubts over a 10% change in a year
Colleagues, all of you who write that women make up 63% of the population of Russia, please note: this claim refers to other publications on the internet, not to any specific recent count, which is simply never cited. Last year, the Federal State Statistics Service gave a figure of 53.