11 Australian landscapes you won't see anywhere else

Why Tatyana Protsenko, who played Malvina, was not filmed anywhere else

As in Soviet times, and now, any girl dreams of acting in a movie. And especially in the role of a beautiful porcelain doll. How fascinating it is when you are dressed in a beautiful dress, dyed in an adult way, done your hair. And at the same time, all the attention of young mischievous people is riveted on you. Some sigh with unrequited love like Pierrot, others swear in their loyalty like Artemon, and still others indulge in cute pranks like Pinocchio. And a beautiful girl with blue hair cutely reproaches them and invites them to

How they burned winter on Shrovetide, treated the dead and other strange rituals that you won't see today

When the word Shrovetide is pronounced, the majority have an association with a noisy holiday, sincere fun, festivities, dances and, of course, with delicious hot pancakes. It's all great, interesting, tasty. However, some of the customs of this folk festival today may look very strange. Read how they burned or drowned the annoying winter, why for many people in ancient times Maslenitsa could end in death and how the dead were treated

"Conversational portraits" and magnificent landscapes of Thomas Gainsborough - an artist whose work you will not see in museums in Russia

More than 250 years have passed since Gainsborough painted his last painting. But the interest of art lovers is still riveted to his work, and art critics collect information about his artistic talent literally bit by bit

See the world through the eyes of a child. What We See vs. What Kids See by Jeff Wysaski

Children can be envied by looking at how carefree they frolic in the room or on the street, playing football with a crumpled newspaper, or setting up an ambush behind a pile of cushions. Children can be scolded when, in the heat of battle with an imaginary enemy, they break a table lamp, turn over a vase of flowers, or tear off the cornice in the living room. But children can also be understood if you know with what eyes they look at our, adult world, and at those objects that we use every day in everyday life. Eager to try on

Grigory Chukhrai and Iraida Penkova: "You just knew how to wait like no one else "

His "Ballad of a Soldier" at one time caused a storm of protests from Soviet officials and won 101 prizes in different countries of the world. He filmed about the war in a way that no one else could. Grigory Chukhrai had the right to his own vision of what was happening: he went through the whole war, he never hid behind other people's backs. And I saw how, despite all the horror of the war, here, in this crucible of fear, the highest feelings arise. These feelings helped to survive. He himself met his happiness at the beginning of the war, and