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The Provisional Government restricted money transfers abroad in June 1917
The Provisional Government has resolved to forbid money transfers abroad and deposits of roubles into the accounts of persons resident abroad. June 1917, and I remember it as if it were yesterday
NB! · The East · Society
On 7 July 1828 the liberation of Greece began
On 7 July 1828 the liberation of Greece began. On that day Russia, Pnglia and France signed a protocol on sending a French expeditionary corps under the command of Nicolas Joseph Maison to the Peloponnese, in order to drive out the troops of Ibrahim
Archive · Monarchies · Moscow · Society
Isaac Massa on the state of Muscovy in his 1614 letter to the States General
“I know of no state at present that stands in greater danger. ... All will go well only when the Tsar sits in blood up to his elbows.” The Dutch merchant Isaac Massa on the state of the Muscovite realm, in a letter to the States General written from Moscow in
NB! · Geography · Maps · Society
France, which capitulated 43 days after the start of the Second World War, oddly enough not only escaped partition at the war's end, but even annexed Italian territories, marked in red on the map
Architecture · Museums · Society
Hermitage Amsterdam to become H’Art Museum in September 2023 and change its partners
The Hermitage's Amsterdam branch is changing its name. From 1 September 2023, the city's third most important museum, after the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum, will reopen as the H’Art Museum. The Amsterdam museum dates back to 2004, when it began as a few
Heritage · Mores · Society · Rome
Italian authorities to punish man who scratched his beloved's name on the Colosseum wall
Italian authorities will punish a man who scratched his sweetheart's name on the wall of the Colosseum. The Minister of Culture has already expressed his concern (and how could he not!). It is strange that the vandal was not detained at the scene of the crime, given the
London · Mores · Society
The scale of tea smuggling in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reached incredible proportions, almost equalling the country's official imports of tea, some 11,000 tonnes a year
The scale of tea smuggling in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reached incredible proportions, almost equalling the country's official imports of tea, some 11,000 tonnes a year. From the early 1700s demand for tea grew without pause. So did the customs duties. The
Observations · Science · Society
Submersible Titan with five passengers still missing after dive to the Titanic wreck
The American research submersible Titan, which vanished on Sunday during a dive in the North Atlantic to visit the wreck of the Titanic with five people aboard, has still not been found. The air supply on board should last until the morning of Thursday. One fears terribly for the people
Coming Up · Museums · Society · Paris · Society Pages
Macron and Mattarella at the opening of the exhibition “Naples in Paris” at the Louvre
Little Macron with the President of Italy, 81-year-old Sergio Mattarella, before the Mona Lisa. They pledge allegiance to great art on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition from the Capodimonte Museum at the Louvre, "Naples in Paris". Not long ago, relations between France and
The East · Cinema · Society
Guy Ritchie's much-discussed film about an American military operation in Afghanistan, released in Russian cinemas as "The Translator", is in the original still called The Covenant, which means "agreement, compact, testament"
Guy Ritchie's much-discussed film about an American military operation in Afghanistan, released in Russian cinemas as "The Translator", is in the original still called The Covenant, which means "agreement, compact, testament". So the point of the film is not, after all, the mere
Archive · Art · Museums · Observations · Society
Military regulations of Nicholas I's reign and a portrait of a boy holding one
Portrait of a Boy with a Book. Unknown artist, first half of the nineteenth century. Collection of the Romanov Museum, Kostroma Museum-Reserve. The book reads: “Military Regulations. Left, forward, march.” Two hundred years have passed, and how familiar the wording still is! The first half of the nineteenth century