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Lorenzo Monaco’s Annunciation with St Catherine, St Anthony Abbot, St Proculus and St Francis is painted in the International Gothic style and was commissioned for the Church of San Procolo in Floren...
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
‘Where can we meet?’ ‘Victory Square, near the monument.’ ‘It's full of telescreens.’
Andrei Vasilyev’s copy or version of Boris Grigoriev ’s In a Restaurant photographed in the apartment of Elena Basner in St Petersburg on 6 July 2009
Andrei Vasilyev’s copy or version of Boris Grigoriev ’s In a Restaurant .
Version of the composition of Boris Grigoriev ’s In a Restaurant
Boris Grigoriev ’s In a Restaurant (1913) from the Alexander Burtsev collection, reproduced in My Journal For The Few (1914)
With the season’s expedition at an end, we decided to go home by way of Persia. There was a small air service – German – which had just started running from Baghdad to Persia, and we went by that. It...
It was six in the morning when Mr. Parker Pyne left for Persia after a stop in Baghdad. The passenger space in the little monoplane was limited, and the small width of the seats was not such as to ac...
We were ushered on to the infecté Russian boat feeling rather nervous. Everything was as different as could be from Persia and Iraq. First, the boat was scrupulously clean; as clean as a hospital, in...