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A Finnish anti-Soviet propaganda postcard of 1939-1940
Alexandr Radayev
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A Magical Chuvash Horse from the "Winter Life" Series by the Artist Ivan Mikhailov, 2011, Cheboksary
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Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov inspects the ruins of an astronomical observatory in 1946
Sergey Ivanovich, the younger brother of the geneticist Nikolai Ivanovich, was a physicist and the founder of a school of physical optics. In 1945 he became President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and held the post until 1951. Nikolai Vavilov was arrested in 1940 on charges of
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Screenshot of an article on Ivan Basov, inventor in the field of data storage systems
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I am trying to work out whether this is the same Ivan Bassov who in 1993 was battling "dogmatic teaching of Marxist-Leninist theory" at the Faculty of Radio Electronics and Informatics in Rybinsk, and who in 2025 is holding forth in Israel on why the Pale
I am trying to work out whether this is the same Ivan Bassov who in 1993 was battling "dogmatic teaching of Marxist-Leninist theory" at the Faculty of Radio Electronics and Informatics in Rybinsk, and who in 2025 is holding forth in Israel on why the Palestinians killed
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Nicholas II in his diary on the famous ball at the Winter Palace
Group photograph of the guests at the court masked ball held in the Hermitage on 13 February 1903 to mark the 290th anniversary of the House of Romanov, at which the whole nobility of the Russian Empire appeared in costumes of the pre-Petrine era. The hall, filled with ancient
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Did you know that the scent of Chanel No. 5 was created by a perfumer from Russia?
Ernest Beaux, a descendant of French émigrés in Russia, became after the Revolution a Russian émigré in France. From the end of the nineteenth century Ernest Beaux worked at the venerable perfumery of Alphonse Rallet in Moscow, on Vyatskaya Street. In 1907 he became technical director of the Rallet factory,
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“Thumbelina and the Beetle”, a papier-mâché Christmas tree decoration, 1900s–1910s
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A legend has died 😔
Cecilia Giménez Zueco has died at the age of 94. She became famous in 2012 for her amateur restoration of the fresco Ecce Homo, painted in 1930 by Elías García Martínez. When a fresco in the Sanctuary of Mercy in the small Spanish town of Borja, in the province of
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let not the ship of his great dominion founder in the waves of falsehood
The Book of Degrees of the Royal Genealogy (Stepennaya kniga), written around 1563. A passage on the reign of Vasily III. wherefore ever, his royal heart and mind keeping watch and pondering wisely, steering all with care in lawfulness, and with might driving off the torrents of lawlessness, let not
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Outline of a cat drawn on a political world map along the contours of the continents
If the world does resemble a cat playing with Australia, it is still fair to ask why one paw should have it worse than all the rest. And, of course, it is important not to forget to stroke the kitty on the head
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