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# So autumn has passed, as though it had never been. A digest of the most interesting posts of November for cosy reading:
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/vot-i-osen-proshla-slovno-i-ne-byvala-daidzhest-samykh-interesnykh-postov-noiabria-dlia-uiutnogo-chteniia/
- Published: 2025-11-30T20:12:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:27:51.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Cinema, Books, Monarchies, Society

📌 For the youngest alchemists of the channel: [three magical alphabets](https://theparnassian.com/ne-znaiu-kak-vam-no-mne-tolko-alfavit-avraama-nravitsia-u-enokha-i-ezry-chto-to-ne-to-peremudrili/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 In the Parnassian Mockingbird rubric: a review of Guillermo del Toro's new [“Frankenstein”](https://theparnassian.com/po-novomu-filmu-del-toro-oshchushchenie-chto-on-davnenko-zhdal-kogda-nakonets-mozhno-budet-pokhvastatsia-pered-patsanami-novymi-strashilkami-i-skazat-smotrite-kakoe-u-menia-chudovishche/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 I tell the story of the recovered [jewels of the Habsburg dynasty](https://theparnassian.com/legendarnyi-florentiiskii-brilliant-i-piatnadtsat-drugikh-ukrashenii-dinastii-gabsburgov-schitavshiesia-uteriannymi-khranilis-v-bankovskom-seife-v-kanade/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 In half a century California has built [22 prisons and 1 university;](https://theparnassian.com/s-1980-goda-kaliforniia-postroila-22-tiurmy-i-1-universitet/?ref=theparnassian.com) we draw our conclusions

📌 POV: you are in Sochi, but you neither gamble in casinos nor ski

📌 The state of affairs with [book thefts](https://theparnassian.com/v-kanale-uzhe-byl-material-o-tom-chto-za-poslednie-gody-biblioteki-evropy-silno-postradali-ot-krazh-redkikh-izdanii-russkikh-klassikov-v-pribaltike-berline-varshave-gaage-zheneve-lione-/?ref=theparnassian.com) in Europe

📌 Who the [kolbyags](https://theparnassian.com/est-takoe-staroe-zabytoe-russkoe-slovo-kak-kolbiag-ego-ispolzovali-v-drevnei-rusi-dlia-oboznacheniia-inozemtsev/?ref=theparnassian.com) were, and why the word deserves to be brought back into use

📌 An analysis of American political technology, using the [new mayor of New York](https://theparnassian.com/odioznyi-mer-niu-iorka-so-svoei-suprugoi-uzhe-uspeli-vypustit-detskuiu-knigu-o-sebe/?ref=theparnassian.com) as an example

📌 Brezhnev's touching [recollections of his mother](https://theparnassian.com/po-natsionalnosti-ia-russkii-po-proiskhozhdeniu-korennoi-proletarii-potomstvennyi-metallurg/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 And the sun dims and dims. A retrospective of the [“Great Soviet Solar Eclipse”](https://theparnassian.com/moskvichi-nabliudaiut-bolshoe-solnechnoe-zatmenie-19-iiunia-1936-solnechnoe-zatmenie-nakanune-repressii/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 The story of one [d@g](https://theparnassian.com/srednevekovaia-sobaka/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 How the Russian [Cossacks liberated Amsterdam.](https://theparnassian.com/24-noiabria-1813-goda-russkie-kazaki-osvobodili-amsterdam-ot-frantsuzskikh-zakhvatchikov/?ref=theparnassian.com)