Saw this tree and remembered Sofia Coppola's 1999 film "The Virgin Suicides", which we had on cassette, and which, frankly, never gathered dust

Saw this tree and remembered Sofia Coppola's 1999 film "The Virgin Suicides", which we had on cassette, and which, frankly, never gathered dust. One of those films that leaves an impression for life. If you have not seen it, consider this a recommendation from the fireproof series: watch it.

The photograph shows a tree being pruned at the end of the nineteenth century. This is no shameful topping, with which trees are disfigured and killed in our own day, but thoughtful manual labour, helping the tree to grow a denser and taller crown

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Saw this tree and remembered Sofia Coppola's 1999 film "The Virgin Suicides", which we had on cassette, and which, frankly, never gathered dust

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s