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Alexandr Radayev
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The Inconvenience of Wigs
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Nude Beneath a Blanket
Nude beneath a blanket. Russian Empire, after a model by the Gardner porcelain manufactory, late nineteenth century
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Hand Embroidery by the Needlewomen of Kostroma for Stalin's 60th Birthday, in the Museum of the Great Kostroma Linen Manufactory
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Mood: Virginia Woolf in a Portrait by Bett Norris
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Critic Belinsky's assessment of Koltsov's poetry
He possesses a talent not great, but genuine; a gift of creation neither deep nor strong, but real and unforced. Belinsky on the poetry of Koltsov. Praise of a sort, yet somehow rather insulting
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The infant Mstislav Rostropovich in a cello case, Baku, 1927
Mstislav Rostropovich in a cello case. With his little left hand he touches the strings. Baku, 1927 His father, Leopold Rostropovich (1892-1942), was a cellist, conductor and teacher, and moved to Baku to teach. He would later become a professor at the Azerbaijan Conservatoire
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Montparnasse Has Never Been as Beautiful as Under Macron
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A 1954 document on a reprimand for forgery as a possible exhibit for a Jewish Museum
I have in my possession a unique document in which a party commission examines the offence of a man who had, on his own authority, altered his nationality in his autobiography and personnel file from "Jewish" to "Russian", for himself and for his parents. Such is
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A Slight Mistake
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What to Wear with an Oversized Puffer Jacket?
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