"Oldushka": Portraits of Russian pensioners who proved that old age can be a joy

How "someone else's age was seized," and Why in the old days there were so many old beggars

Memory is arranged like this: the further the past, the brighter it was, kinder and dearer to the heart. This works not only with individuals, but also with nations. Everyone, for example, is sure that in the old days grandparents were treated with special respect. But the popular print crumbles, it is worth reading the classics of literature and ethnographers: it was not so simple in the old days with the old people

Archaeologists have discovered a Stone Age metropolis that proved that cavemen were not primitive

Many of us have been taught that the Stone Age is about hairy cavemen swinging wooden clubs and not burdened with much intelligence. Many modern archaeological discoveries prove over and over again that this is not the case at all. The ancient metropolis was discovered by archaeologists in Dorset. Mount Pleasant Mega-henge was built over four and a half thousand years ago. Contrary to popular belief, it was built not for several centuries, but in a wild haste. What caused the real construction boom kam

8 films that proved that a remake can be more successful than the original

Today, the fascination with remakes in cinema is so great that sometimes it seems as if the Dream Factory have forgotten how to invent new plots. In our country, after several extremely unsuccessful attempts, this trend, fortunately, has outlived its usefulness, but Hollywood producers do not get tired of rearranging old ideas. Most often, an appeal to a plot familiar to the viewer is not very interesting, but there have been examples in the history of cinema when remakes turned out to be more popular than the original. Compare thin

Old age is a joy: Soulful pictures about the life of elderly couples

“Old age is not a joy,” is a phrase that almost everyone has heard. But only the Dutch artist Marius van Dokkum, holding a different opinion, thinks differently. Over the years, he has been creating funny pictures from the life of elderly people who, despite their grumpiness and grumpiness, enjoy a new day and event: from the usual eating of buns and sweets over a cup of tea to some incredible madness, which would not even dare to dare young people

Noble old age: Russian old women-aristocrats in the paintings of the XIX century

People grew up and grew old at all times, and among the noblewomen of the Russian Empire were not only young conquerors of officers' hearts who shone at balls. From comfortable chairs, from offices, from quiet living rooms of noble houses, old women, or, rather, elderly ladies, watched the tumultuous life of children and grandchildren, from time to time plunging into memories that often turned out to be much more valuable to them than the vanity of the present. Did the noble grandmothers of former Russia differ so much from those of today?