"Winter Landscape", 1876
- Volkov Efim Efimovich
(1844-1920).

BREAKING: Sec of State Marco Rubio says "just hearing the Taliban is holding more American hostages than has been reported. If this is true, we will have to immediately place a VERY BIG bounty on their top leaders, maybe even bigger than the one we had on Bin Laden."

"Sirens", 1892

Australian artist: (Sir John Campbell Longstaff , 1861 - 1941)

The founding of nationalist thinking is credited to the German Christian theologian, philosopher, and historian Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803). He argued that people (Volk/Nation) are shaped by a shared history, blood, language, homeland, customs, tastes, and mutual care. Similar to ancient thinkers, he believed that different nations possess distinct character traits and are united by a national spirit (Nationalgeist). Herder considered the most natural form of state to be one self-governed by people with a single national character, i.e., a nation state. Such a state should be governed to foster sympathy and affinity among the nation, establish general welfare, national happiness, and achieve national well-being. For Herder, the concepts of "das Volk" and the nation are interchangeable, and the strength of the people is evident not only in their similarity but also in how well they treat each other.

“When any political body has outlived its maturity, who would not wish it a quiet dissolution?"

Herder, J.G. von, 1784-91. Excerpts from Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind. In: Volume 2. From Absolutism to Napoleon, 1648-1815.

"Yasnaya Polyana winter", 1961.

- Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov
(1916-1995)

"Cupid and Psyche" in the Summer Garden. St. Petersburg.

Bernini School. The end of the XVII century.

"Silenus' Feast," 1871

Alfred Philippe Rolle

Silenus was the god of dancing, drinking, and the wine press. He is best known as the companion, tutor, and foster father of Dionysus.

The history of the Knights Templars : the temple church, and the temple
by Addison, C. G. (Charles Greenstreet), d. 1866


Publication date 1842