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This Is What a Sixteen-Year Age Gap Looks Like
This is what a sixteen-year age gap looks like. Lev Nikolayevich and Sofya Andreyevna Tolstoy
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It is hard even to choose who is the most 😍 in this photo, apart from Yefremov, naturally
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Fyodor Tyutchev's family link to Boris Johnson through Ernestine von Pfeffel
What connects Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev and Boris Johnson, apart from perpetually dishevelled hair? To a certain extent, they may be called relations, by way of Tyutchev's second wife, the former Baroness Ernestine von Pfeffel. Ernestine's own brother, the Bavarian Baron Karl Maximilian von Pfeffel, who was
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After Death, the Witch-kings of Angmar End Up on Public Transport
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Visitors in the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura reading room, Rio de Janeiro
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The Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The building was constructed in 1887 in the Neo-Manueline style, inspired by the Portuguese architecture of the fifteenth century
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"There is no black maw that will devour all the gendarmes!" "There is, but it is temporarily closed"
Photograph by Robert Doisneau, 1952
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Claude Monet in His Garden at Giverny
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French children's books in the series “Mes petits docs” on the two world wars
The French are good at talking about the past, and it occurs to no one that children should not be told about the First and Second World Wars. Here, for example, are two volumes from the series "Mes petits documents" ["My Little Documents"], devoted to the
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Suvorov's victory in the Battle of the Adda from 26 to 28 April opened the way to Milan
26–28 April saw the Battle of the Adda, a clash between the Russo-Austrian and French armies. Yet another brilliant victory for Suvorov, who commanded the allied forces, opened Milan to the Russian army, and the city was soon taken. To the vexation of Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov, this was
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Three contemporary art galleries open in Moscow, two on Prechistenskaya Embankment
In just a few days, three new galleries of contemporary art have opened in Moscow: Beton, Sasha Blanar's Serene and Ilya Ovcharenko's Nakovalnya. The last two, moreover, stand in neighbouring buildings on Prechistenskaya Embankment. At Serene, the première was a women's group exhibition, “Light
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