The most interesting sights of Norway in the painted photos from 100 years ago

What secrets are kept in the most pompous tenement house for the elite, built 100 years ago in St. Petersburg

This stately house on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt is one of the architectural masterpieces built in the northern capital by the father of St. Petersburg Art Nouveau Fyodor Lidval. The building is decorated with mushrooms, animals, owls and other interesting elements. At the beginning of the last century, it was one of the most pompous apartment buildings erected in St. Petersburg for the elite. And even now it is very prestigious to live here

What is unique about the Odessa Opera House, which Forbes included in the list of the most interesting sights of Europe

The modern Opera and Ballet Theater was built in Odessa in 1887 on the site of the first city theater, which burned down on New Year's Eve 1873. I must say that most of the largest cities in the world have acquired central theaters, having already significantly "aged" and taken place. And in the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 19th century, not a single provincial city had its own theater. Such centers of culture were only in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Odessa is a unique exception

Why the paintings of the most expensive artist in the world today, Natalya Goncharova, were arrested 100 years ago right at exhibitions

Considering the work of Natalya Sergeevna Goncharova, an avant-garde artist, a representative of the "Rayonists" movement, the flagship of Russian modernism, a sculptor and decorator, one involuntarily asks the question: "And would painting collectors put out such fabulous sums of money for the primitive works of the artist if she were not surrounded by public scandals and arrests of paintings right in the exhibition halls? " It seems unlikely … And the church blamed her for the extraordinary solution of church plots

Photos from 100 years ago: how they lived in the Yenisei province

Photos taken at the beginning - the middle of the last century, which are currently stored in the archives of the Krasnoyarsk Museum of Local Lore, are an attempt to tell the inhabitants of Russia about the distant and unknown Yenisei province and about people who live in distant and then completely unknown lands

How famous historical sights looked like 150 years ago, which have changed today

Perhaps there is nothing more interesting than traveling the world, enjoying the scenery outside the window or admiring the local sights with a rich history. Arc de Triomphe, Great Wall of China, Mount Rushmore - all this and much more looked completely different not so long ago, unlike what it looks like now