First volume of “Death to the World” collects 1990s American Orthodox samizdat

New in the "Object of Desire" column is the book "Death to the World. Volume One: Genesis", which gathers all the material from the original Orthodox American samizdat "Death to the World" of the 1990s, published by the monks of the Monastery of St Herman of Alaska. The volume, of some 400 pages, includes the 12 original issues published by the Monastery of St Herman of Alaska, as well as issues from the Apocalypse-related publications of the youth missionary organisation "Alaska: The Last Frontier" and "Mother Wisdom". For now it is not delivered to Russia.

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The Betrothal Feast in Vlas Doroshevich's Satirical Novel “Mu-Xiang”

They were served stewed spoiled eggs, roast suckling pig, seaweed, ginger preserve, goose livers, shark-fin soup with crab roe, toasted almonds, soup with pigeon eggs, ham and chicken, boiled young bamboo, green peas, boiled chicken with bamboo shoots, bird's-nest soup with eggs and ham, fried frogs

Madonna with Cherubim in Milan's Brera: from Bellini to Mantegna

"Madonna with Cherubim" was long considered the work of Giovanni Bellini, until in 1885, during restoration, features characteristic of his chief rival, and incidentally his relative, Andrea Mantegna, came to light. What misled viewers was a softness uncharacteristic of Mantegna. Despite the established title, the Madonna and Child

Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

The silliest thing about this renaming is its poor timing. For when the Pushkin Museum was offered, as a gift, the greatest collection of contemporary art of the second half of the twentieth century, the collection of Peter Ludwig, the very reason for the refusal was the condition that the

First volume of “Death to the World” collects 1990s American Orthodox samizdat

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The Betrothal Feast in Vlas Doroshevich's Satirical Novel “Mu-Xiang”

Madonna with Cherubim in Milan's Brera: from Bellini to Mantegna

Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

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