an enchanted place in the center of Riga

Could the architect imagine that seven years later he would become a victim of the Red Terror, and his building would become a gloomy symbol. They joked that this was the tallest building in Riga – you could see Kolyma. Take out and put 847 thousand Since the first Bolshevization of Latvia in 1919, the … Read more

This is how ‘Shōgun’, the ‘Succession’ of feudal Japan, was built, with a passionate historian and traditional theater actors | Television

The Belgian Frederik Cryns, professor of History at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, remembers an old saying from his adopted country: “a samurai who does not know about poetry, traditional theater or the tea ceremony, is not a samurai.” . These and other disciplines, and not only katana fighting, appear in … Read more