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At the Premiere of Kirill Serebrennikov's "Decameron", the Most Gorgeous Lolita Milyavskaya, Chulpan Khamatova, Yana Valensia, Maria Revyakina and Even Alexander Filippenko Were Spotted

At the premiere of Kirill Serebrennikov's "Decameron", the most gorgeous Lolita Milyavskaya, Chulpan Khamatova, Yana Valensia, Maria Revyakina and even Alexander Filippenko were spotted. And this before I had managed to give my spectacles a proper wipe

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Alexey Dmitrievich Dostoevsky, Captain of the Valaam Monastery Fleet and Bass Guitarist, at the Unveiling of the Monument to His Great-Grandfather, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Outside the Dostoevsky Bookshop on Sapozhkovskaya Square by the Walls of th

Alexey Dmitrievich Dostoevsky, Captain of the Valaam Monastery Fleet and bass guitarist, at the unveiling of the monument to his great-grandfather, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, outside the Dostoevsky bookshop on Sapozhkovskaya Square by the walls of the Kremlin. In the photograph, both Dostoevskys stand behind the substantial figure of Igor

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Five-pointed star with plough and hammer as the emblem of the Red Army in 1918

Originally the emblem of the Red Army was a star with a plough and hammer; the combination of sickle and hammer was approved only in July 1918. In an order of the Military Commissariat of Moscow Province of 8 May 1918, the emblem is called a "Martian star with

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The Late Queen Fabiola of Belgium Sends Greetings to Her Niece, Princess Margaretha of Luxembourg and Liechtenstein, Who Wore Her Diamond Earrings to the Wedding of Her Daughter, Princess Marie-Annunciata of Liechtenstein, in Vienna the Other Day

Sorry if, from now on, you will always picture the departed owners of old things saluting you from the other world whenever you come to use them. On the other hand, it may even be good for you

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The signature cross on the tombstone of that very René Lalique at Père Lachaise cemetery

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Tomorrow at 6.30 p.m. a new monument to Fyodor Mikhailovich is due to be unveiled beside the "Dostoevsky" bookshop; this year he is, after all, 200

Tomorrow at 6.30 p.m. a new monument to Fyodor Mikhailovich is due to be unveiled beside the "Dostoevsky" bookshop; this year he is, after all, 200. The previous Dostoevsky sits literally 20 metres away, on the little patch by the Lenin Library, where he has been

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Probationary Period at the LDPR

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Good Yasnaya Polyana morning

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Lyubimovka young playwrights festival at the Sovremennik Theatre until 10 September

While I am at the "Tolstoy" theatre festival at Yasnaya Polyana, the "Lyubimovka" festival of young dramatists is running in Moscow until 10 September. Readings of plays are held at the Sovremennik Theatre; admission is free, by registration, which opens the day before each event, and

A young man and a woman use smartphones to photograph a plywood plaque with text fixed to a large pile of branches among the trees of a summer forest.

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Two people photograph a plaque on a brushwood pile in the forest

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Walking Dmitry Volkostrelov's route at Yasnaya Polyana during the "Tolstoy" theatre festival

My colleagues and I walked Dmitry Volkostrelov's route at Yasnaya Polyana during the "Tolstoy" theatre festival. The length of the path equals the combined length of all the lines of the first edition of War and Peace. A stroll of some 6 km: the sum of

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"Only sparkling wines produced in the province of Champagne may be called champagne..."

Pavel Titov's kiosk in Krasnodar:

Alexandr Radayev