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War. War never changes. Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything: from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage. But the tale of humanity will never come to a close, for the struggle of survival is a war without end, and war – war never changes.
Urartian Bronze Votive Plaque, c. 8th-7th century BC Of hammered sheet bronze, probably depicting the storm god, Teisheba, enthroned wearing a long cloak and sun disc crown, holding three thunderbolts in his left hand, a bull seated beneath the throne, before him four worshipers, wearing fringed cloaks, hands raised in supplication, various items in the field including rayed sun, crescent […]
Илья Репин — Приезд царей Иоанна и Петра Алексеевичей на Семеновский потешный двор в сопровождении свиты. 1900 г. Ilya Repin — Arrival of the tsars Peter I and Ivan V
28 novembre 1789 : Le docteur Joseph Guillotin et le chirurgien Antoine Louis présentent aux députés de l’Assemblée Constituante une machine servant aux exécutions à mort. L’engin se veut être le moyen “le plus sûr, le plus rapide et le moins barbare.” pour donner la mort.
В. Г. Шварц. «Шествие на осляти Алексея Михайловича». The Palm Sunday in Moscow at the Time of Tsar Alexei I Mikhailovich by V. Schwarz 1865
The Sobornoye Ulozheniye was a legal code established in 1649 by the Zemsky Sobor underTsar Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia
The Past and the Present by Thomas Cole (1838)
Portrait of Prince Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov by Christina Robertson (1840)
Portrait of Alexander Danilovich Menshikov in 1698 painted in Holland during Grand Embassy of Peter the Great
Murder of Andrei Bogolyubsky, a painting by Sergei Kirillov Сергей Кириллов — Андрей Боголюбский. (Убиение). Летом 1174 против князя созрел заговор. Его участниками были люди из ближайшего княжеского окружения: бояре Кучковичи, жена князя, зять Кучковичей боярин Петр, княжий слуга Яким и ключник Амбал Ясин, осетин родом, всего 20 человек.Заговорщики собрались в доме боярина Петра 28 июня, в канун праздника святых […]
Valery Jacobi — Jesters at the Court of Empress Anna Ioanovna of Russia (1872) Here gathered in the bedroom of sick Empress Anna (lying in the bed): Biron (sitting at the bedhead ), jesters trying to cheer up by playing leapfrog: they are M.A. Galitsyn (bending), N.F. Volkonsky who jumped upon Galitsyn; Apraksin ( sprawled on the floor ), Jester […]
Wedding at the House of Ice was a celebrated example of coarse amusements practised at the court of Empress Anna of Russia. The scared newly-weds sit on the icy bed to the left; the jocular woman in golden dress is Empress Anna herself. Painted in 1878 by Valery Ivanovich Jacobi (1834-1902)
Marie-Thérèse of France aged 17 by Heinrich Friedrich Früger, c. 1795 «In December 1795, seventeen-year-old Marie-Thérèse, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, fled Paris’s notorious Temple Prison. Kept in solitary confinement after her parents’ brutal execution during the Terror, she had been unaware of the fate of her family, save the cries she heard of her […]
Princess Alix of Hesse, laterEmpress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia
Wilhelmine Louise, Princess of Prussia, 1840, by Friedrich Wilhelm von Schidow.
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