Author: AlFo
How to Search on Archive.org
Cracking the Archive.org Code: Effective Search Strategies for Complex European Surnames and Other Keywords. Author I use a couple of surnames in the article, but keep in mind that these can be any words, toponyms,…
Sophie’s Choice
“You have, of course, seen more than once the album of a provincial miss…” An Encyclopedia of Russian Life in a German Rendition. The Diary of Sophie Knorring Article Author: Historian Sergei Gavrilov (about the…
Sophie’s Choice. Part II.
“All started furtively to talk, to joke, to comment not without some malice, a suitor for Tatiana to assign. Article Author: Historian Sergei Gavrilov (Young men in the Knorring household) To be the granddaughter of…
The Three Velho Sisters:
The Forgotten Baronesses of Tsarskoye Selo Article Author: Historian Sergei Gavrilov When speaking of Pushkin’s female circle during his Lyceum years, Ekaterina Bakunina or Natalia Kochubey are most often recalled. But living right alongside the…
Pushkin in the Style of Sargent
How Neural Networks (Gemini, Midjourney, Sora) are Helping to Resurrect the Golden Age Article Author: Historian Sergei Gavrilov Recently, we conducted a rather fascinating series of experiments at the crossroads of classical Russian literature and…
The AI “Kiss”
From Illustration to Reconstruction. The AI “Kiss” Article Author: Historian Sergei Gavrilov One sometimes gets the distinct impression that modern neural networks can do absolutely everything.They write texts, compose music, and paint pictures gracefully stylized…
