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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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Queen Victoria in a donkey-drawn carriage during her visit to France in March 1891
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The 1930s
The 1930s. A shot by one of the creators of the Hollywood style in photography, Murray Korman (1902-1961), incidentally a native of the town of Kamianets-Podilskyi
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Queen Mary of Teck died on 24 March 1953 as the result of the same procedure as her husband, King George V, after the administration of tranquillisers
Queen Mary of Teck died on 24 March 1953 as the result of the same procedure as her husband, King George V, after the administration of tranquillisers. Queen Mary lived for almost 86 years, King George V for 71
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Valentin Berestov's poem about what Pushkin did not know
Pushkin Studies. What was there that great Pushkin never knew? He never knew a single chastushka, Never saw a single matryoshka In her lacquered little dress. The birch as the symbol of Rus' He never called, God forbid. In his day it was not suited To that role. It