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By the Treaty of Gulistan, concluded after the first Russo-Persian War of 1804–1813, Persia recognised the transfer to Russia of Dagestan, Eastern Georgia (that is, Kartli-Kakheti), Imereti, Mingrelia, Guria and Abkhazia, as well as the Karabakh, Ganja, Sheki, Shirvan, Quba, Baku, Derbent and Talysh khanates of Northern
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The Semirechye Cossacks in Eastern Iran during the First World War. The photographs of the 2nd and 3rd Separate Sotnias of the 2nd Semirechye Cossack Regiment were taken in the vicinity of the city of Mashhad in the province of Khorasan. The Semireki knew the local realities perfectly well, drawing
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February reminds us that the coldest time of year is always followed by renewal, and we recall the key publications of the last winter month. A of the most interesting posts of the past 28 days:. 📌 A living sea. Kazakhstan has solved the environmental problem of the North Aral 📌 “Ministerial
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On the Treatment of Israelites in Persia, from the Observations of Gaspard Drouville during His Persian Journey of 1812 and 1813. The Persians live as good neighbours with all Christians; they even often go to them to drink wine, while they hate the J***s excessively. It is well known
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Meet her! Epstein. Elizaveta Ivanovna Epstein. Born in the Russian Empire in 1879. She received her artistic education in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where she worked in private studios and attended classes at the Academy of Arts. She studied under Leonid Pasternak. At the beginning of the twentieth century she
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Gustave Caillebotte, 1875
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A late medieval miniature by the artist known as the Master of Adelaide of Savoy illustrates one of the most mysterious episodes of the Arthurian cycle: the supernatural conception of Merlin. According to the medieval legendarium, the wizard Merlin was begotten by a demon who visited a pious maiden, wishing
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Alexander Orlovsky's illustrations to Gaspard Drouville's "Journey to Persia". Saint Petersburg, 1819–1821. A remarkable example of early Russian lithography.
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The Cherrys have the 1919 canvas "Jeanne Hébuterne Seated in Front of a Door"; Lyudmila Prokofyevna has "Girl in a Sailor Suit" of 1918. To be honest, our Modigliani looks even better, without any candelabra or gilding, simply and in a thoroughly modernist spirit
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A few days ago at the Louvre, a portrait of the loathsome Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, stripped of his title of Prince, was stuck to a wall. The news calls the people who did it activists. Naturally, they have some political or moral justification for their demonstration. In principle, after all,