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Alexandr Radayev
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Paratethys as the largest lake on Earth and the three seas that appeared after its disappearance
Millions of years ago, Paratethys was the largest lake on Earth, covering 2.8 million square kilometres and stretching from present-day France to the Altai. The water level in the lake stood 80 metres above that of today's World Ocean. Paratethys, often called an ocean, existed some
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On the set of Sergei Eisenstein's film "Alexander Nevsky", 1938
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Yuri Levitansky on the transience of life and a role that is played only once
Everything passes in this world, snow gives way to rain, Everything passes, everything passes, we came, and we shall go. Everything comes and goes into nowhere out of nothing. Everything passes, but nothing passes without trace. And, taking part in the plot, I watch from the side How my moments
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Dmitri Shostakovich in a 1955 letter to Isaak Glikman on the performance of Bach's music
Fine music will sound well however it is played. Any Bach prelude and fugue can be played at any tempo, with any dynamic shading or none at all, and it will still be beautiful. That is how music ought to be written, so that not a single scoundrel can spoil
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Leonid Andreyev on the cross at the neck and the cross on the back
- But you have no cross round your neck - A cross? We carry ours on our backs Leonid Andreyev
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National Flags of the Warships of Various Countries, Published in London in 1894
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The Man Who Lived to Draw His Pension Has Seen What It Amounts To
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Greek mosaic inscribed Ευφροσυνος found in Turkey in 2016
In 2016 a Greek mosaic inscribed Ευφροσυνος, denoting a man rejoicing, was found in Turkey. The find most probably belongs to the later period, the 2nd to 4th centuries AD. Joy, at any rate, has lost none of its meaning since
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Nicholas II after the Coronation
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