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Potsdam (Germany), Sep 3 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Omer Messinger).- The Museum Barberini in Potsdam will host from 7 Sep a collection of impressionist paintings of the museum’s founder, Hasso Plattner, including more works by Claude Monet, and other masterpieces by Renoir, Caillebotte, Pissarro, Signac, Sisley or Vlaminck.FOOTAGE OF THE EXHIBITION.
Potsdam (Germany), Mar 17 (EFE / EPA).- (Camera: Filip Singer) The Barberini Museum in Potsdam opens the doors of the exhibition "Rembrandt's Orient" until June 27, 2021.The exhibition shows 110 pieces that include masterpieces by Rembrandt, Ferdinand Bol, Jan van der Heyden, Willem Kalf, Pieter Lastman or Jan Lievens, among others.FOOTAGE OF THE EXHIBITION
These two incredibly valuable pieces of historic jewelry were once part of a set. A bejeweled Faberge Egg, called the Diamond Trellis because of the intersecting lines of diamonds all across its body, once contained this so-called surprise elephant, a jewel-encrusted automaton that would walk when it was wound up. The egg and elephant were given as a gift from Russian czar Alexander III to his wife Maria Feodorovna on Easter of 1892, but the two items were separated when they were sold off by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. The Museum of Natural Science in Houston, Texas is the unlikely site of the reunion between these two rare pieces of jewelry. The Diamond Trellis, created under the watchful eye of legendary jewel master Peter Carl Faberge, belongs to American oil tycoon Artie McFerrin, while the surprise elephant, which was custom designed to fit inside the egg, was found only last year in the Royal Collection of the Queen of England. Both pieces will continue to be on display for about a year at the Museum before returning to their respective collections.
This Colt pistol is one of the most notorious weapons in Russian history. Bullets fired from this pistol were responsible for the death of the Nicholas II, the last Tsar of the Russian Empire, an assassination which led to the rise of communism in Russia and which would alter the course of history. Nicholas II, the last monarch of the Romanov dynasty, ruled from November 1 1894 until his forced abdication on March 15, 1917. Nicholas II and most of his family were executed in the basement of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg on July 17 1918, ending 300 years of dynastic rule by the Romanov family. The death of the Tsar and his family helped to usher in the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, and to cement their grip on the reigns of power in Russia.
Popular British astronaut Tim Peake got people's attention by sharing the details of his life in space on his social media accounts. He launched up into the cosmos and made it back down to earth to tell his tale all with the help of this Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Now you can see the craft for yourself at the London Science Museum.
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