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Officer's helmet with the badge "For Philippopolis, 3rd, 4th and 5th January 1878" The Battle of Philippopolis (Plovdiv) took place on 2–7 January 1878 during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. The Russian forces of the Western Detachment under Lieutenant-General I. V. Gurko,
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A brief review of the key publications of the last two weeks of February. We have spoken about new exhibitions, unique museum collections and the repatriation of art, and touched on pressing questions of the Russian art market and of architectural heritage. 📌 The Fersman Mineralogical Museum in Moscow and the
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And This Is Animated by Thee! The motto on a commemorative medal with a most unusual obverse design. An eagle with a sceptre and orb in its talons soars in the rays of the All-Seeing Eye above a curious device: a minting screw press, a balancier. The medal was
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Vladimir Yakovlev
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The Thaw, one of the great milestones of our twentieth-century culture, had its shadow side too, and that is the canvas of the exhibition "The Dark Thaw" at the Voznesensky Centre. What are these dark places? Little-known art that stayed in the shade. Names that never
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