Polina Roslyakova

Zahnärztin/Oral Chirurgin

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Hallstatt, Austria 🇦🇹

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Schwäbisch Hall, Germany 🇩🇪

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Chamonix, France 🇫🇷

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Dresden, Germany 🇩🇪

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Fun fact about ‘Country Road in Provence by Night’ 👀 It could have been a realistic landscape, but it isn’t.

Van Gogh first sketched the composition in a letter to Theo, then painted it from memory, combining elements into something imagined. Painted just before leaving Saint-Rémy, it might be his personal ‘summary’ of Provence.

🖼️ ‘Country Road in Provence by Night’, 1890 © Kröller-Müller Museum
✏️ Detail of letter RM23

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The immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) can hit the reset button on its life. When stressed or aging, it shrinks back into a baby polyp stage and starts over. Biologically immortal.🪼

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✍️ ‘It’s gravely beautiful, it’s the heart of the countryside, distinctive and picturesque.’ Vincent van Gogh (May 1890)

The countryside around Auvers-sur-Oise felt familiar to Vincent. It reminded him of his childhood in North Brabant and gave him a sense of security. The old houses with thatched roofs were especially appealing to him. He captured them frequently, painting them rapidly in fresh colours, like in this painting.

🖼️ Houses at Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890 © Toledo Museum of Art

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🌹 This picture of wild roses may look very pleasant and peaceful, but Van Gogh was actually suffering a severe mental crisis at the time. He had admitted himself to the psychiatric institution in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, hoping to find peace there. As soon as he could, he went out into the gardens to paint or draw.

Van Gogh painted the fragile blossoms naturalistically, but treated the green leaves differently. He has turned them into flat areas of plain colour surrounded by heavy blue outlines.

‘Wild Roses’, 1889 © Van Gogh Museum

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Wildflowers, do not mow

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🥚 One egg is basically nature’s multivitamin.

It delivers near-perfect protein + choline for brain health, lutein for sharper vision, and a ton of vitamins (B12, D, selenium) that most people are low on. The yolk is where the magic happens.

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“The bearded tit, cute, curious, and effortlessly iconic.”

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A single serving of beetroot can provide up to 20–30% of your daily folate needs and is naturally rich in nitrates that help support better blood flow and improved stamina.

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In 1889–1890, Van Gogh painted irises again and again.
From a single bloom to full bouquets, he explored endless variations of the same flower. While staying at the psychiatric institution in Saint-Rémy, the garden became one of his main sources of inspiration.

Which version is your favourite?
1. ‘Irises’, 1890 © The MET
2. 'Irises', 1890 © Van Gogh Museum
3. ‘Irises’, 1889 © Getty Museum
4. ‘Iris’, 1889, © National Gallery of Canada

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Wolf Kahn
After Glow, 1974

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🐜 Small but mighty: Ants make up roughly 15-20% of all living animal biomass on Earth's land. They heavily outweigh all wild birds and mammals combined. 🐜

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“Somewhere between the mountains and peace.”

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To sell, or not to sell? 🌻 After Vincent and his brother Theo passed away, Jo van Gogh-Bonger became responsible for Vincent’s entire body of work. Hundreds of paintings, thousands of drawings and letters, and the task of bringing his art to the world.
For years, ‘Sunflowers’ was part of her daily life. When the National Gallery in London wanted to acquire it, Jo faced a difficult decision. In a letter, she wrote: ‘For two days I tried to harden my heart…’.

Letting the painting go was not just a sale to her, but a sacrifice for the sake of Vincent’s glory. Sometimes protecting a legacy means parting with something deeply personal. Would you have made the same choice?

🖼️ ‘Sunflowers’, 1888 © the National Gallery, London

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Schloss Lichtenstein, Germany 🇩🇪

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Stolberg, Germany 🇩🇪

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The Monastery of Vallbona de les Monges in Catalonia dates back to around 1150, making it nearly 850 years old.