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Alexandr Radayev
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Off to Paris, Urgently!
Off to Paris, urgently! A creative meeting with Yury Butusov is an excellent continuation of the touring production. He is one of the finest theatre directors in the country. There is so much one could ask him
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A Careful Tread in Times of News Collapse
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Pope Francis will not come to the reopening of Notre-Dame, but Donald Trump will
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Porteur de caljan: the hookah-bearer
Porteur de caljan: the hookah-bearer. From Cornelis de Bruijn's «Travels in Muscovy, Persia and India».
Archive · Books · People · Saint Petersburg
Corrector Varvara Timofeyeva's recollection of Dostoevsky's punctuation
Dostoevsky preferred intuitive punctuation and did not resort to the rules of orthography when placing punctuation marks. He read his manuscripts aloud and put commas wherever the intonation called for a pause. There is a curious recollection of Dostoevsky on this score by the writer and translator Varvara Timofeyeva, who
Coming Up · Architecture · Moscow · Museums
Central Museum of Russian Cossacks to be Housed in a Mansion in Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane
A Museum of the Cossacks is to open in Moscow. It will become part of the complex of the State Historical Museum. The Central Museum of the Russian Cossacks will be housed in an old mansion in Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane, where before the Revolution of 1917 the Palace Department had
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Every Time You Go New Year Shopping
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I Hope It Is Not 2025
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Winter Salvador Dalí Reminds Us to Wrap Up Warm Before Leaving the House
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Panorama of Moscow in the 1718 edition of Cornelis de Bruijn's travels
Panorama of Moscow from Cornelis de Bruijn's "Travels in Muscovy, Persia and India", in my 1718 edition. Incidentally, I have found my own house here.
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