17. Music 🎶
Alexander Borodin’s grave – Tikhvin Cemetery, St Petersburg 🇷🇺
No lecture today. Just music. Open Spotify, put on a record, and let yourself drift away. It’s Saturday! 🍻💃🕺🪩
(Sorry there’s no wider shot of the whole tomb 😬🙏 The joys of shooting on film! 🎞️😅)
![Stone tombstone with a cross in a circle in the center and decorative triangles inlaid with color tiles. Four compartments around the circle have inscriptions in Arabic, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. The tombstone is for Ann, mother of cleric Grisandus. It is from Sicily, 1149. Alt text on photo: The Tombstone of Anne, sometimes known as the ‘Tombstone in four languages’. Source: Dipartimeneto regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identita Sicilian. Soprintendenza per I beni culturali ed ambientali di Palermo. Archivio fotografico [Regional Department of Cultural Heritage and Sicilian Identity, Supervisor for the Environmental and Cultural Heritage of Palermo. Photograph archive.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:25q2omojyginwvyxkwfabqff/bafkreig6ghmkz2k6zzam7d7wfkbngibjrd3gvs6gih42oqbxsw4jk67y7e)
