Excessive passion for alcohol was never encouraged. Rather, on the contrary, condemned. At all times, society has negatively perceived such dependence. Sometimes the penalties for drunkenness were very harsh, even cruel.
In France, alcoholics are often...
Collections and collectors
Collections and collectors
The path of an alcoholic to death from the collection of French postcards in 1900
This museum will tell about the centuries-old traditions of brewing
Since 2005, a brewing museum has been operating in Lviv. It was opened on the occasion of the 290th anniversary of the founding of the Lviv brewery.
Visitors to this museum have the opportunity to discover the mystery of the birth of the intoxicating...
Perfume collection of a resident of Odessa
Odessa’s Natalia Mironova, the Odessa perfumer, was not at all motivated to plunge into the perfumery world by Patrick Suskind’s book “The Perfume” and her convincing screen version.
The reason was the categorical prohibition of doctors on perfume: the...
Tragic history and collection of dolls
In the south of the Mexican capital is the region of Sochimilko - the oldest Aztec settlement. Here, on the floating islands of the Lake Texcoco, Indians grew flowers for the Aztec Imperial Palace, and the crop of fruits and vegetables, which were shot...
Record collection of scarves Kiev Dynamo from the Ukrainian fan
The owner of the largest collection of FC Dynamo football scarves is Yevgeny Kudryavtsev. For 20 years, he managed to collect 436 different scarves from Dynamo Kyiv Club and this record was officially registered.
According to the head of the National...
In Kiev Museum in honor of the 90th anniversary of the OUN exhibition opened
In Kiev, the National Museum of History of Ukraine opened an exhibition in honor of the 90th anniversary of the creation of the OUN.
At the opening of the exhibition “We were born great”, the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Vyacheslav Kirilenko was...
Taking a walk inside a person: what does the Museum of the human body in the Netherlands hide?
According to the visitors of this museum, this walk is not for the faint of heart. After all, its exhibits are made so realistic that it just takes your breath away.
The human body museum is located in the city of Leiden, near the capital of the...
The collection of Soviet spy cameras, which collected 40 years
Last summer, Aston’s Auctioneers auction house was held in Dudley, England. They presented a collection of 25 Soviet spy cameras. Its owner, who wished to remain anonymous, has been collecting her for almost 40 years.
“To see so many similar cameras in...
Ticket is not a ballet, or a collection of film tickets from around the world
Tickets Please! collects movie tickets from around the world.
Tickets Please! - This is the nickname of one of the authors of the account on Instagram. He or she (it is not known for sure) puts photos of film tickets from different countries online...
A collection that can shed light on the mythology and ritual practices of ancient Rome
Giovanni Carafa di Noja was an Italian nobleman, VII Duke of Nox, and distinguished by the broadest outlook. He was a talented collector and experienced an irrepressible antique and numismatic passion. Being a very wealthy man, Giovanni Cárafa had the...