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Three partitions of Poland among Russia, Prussia and Austria in 1772, 1793 and 1795
The History of Poland Consists of Just Three Partitions. The partition of 1772 between Russia, Prussia and Austria, the partition of 1793 between Russia and Prussia, the partition of 1795 between Russia, Prussia and Austria. And then straight on to 1918.
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The Olympic Village of the 1980 Lake Placid Games was housed in a prison building
The 1980 Olympic Games at Lake Placid were accompanied by a serious scandal, one of the loudest in the history of the Winter Games, over the conditions in which the American side housed the athletes. The Olympic Village was set up on the grounds of a prison. Some American sources
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Everybody Needs Love
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Alexander Blok and Lyubov Dmitrievna Mendeleeva
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The 1903 wedding of Alexander Blok and Lyubov Mendeleeva in the church at Tarakanovo
Do you remember the lines "A girl was singing in a church choir of all the weary in a foreign land"? In them Blok immortalised the Church of the Archangel Michael in the village of Tarakanovo. In his memoirs he writes of it as follows: Mendeleev and my
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Poem by Alexander Blok of 29 January 1901 about the anticipation of spring
The wind has brought from afar A hint of a song of spring, Somewhere, bright and deep, A patch of sky has opened. In this bottomless azure In the twilight of approaching spring The winter storms wept, Starry dreams hovered. Timidly, darkly and deeply My strings wept. The wind has
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The 1968 "Odyssey": of all the screen adaptations, the one closest to the text of its source
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First volume of “Death to the World” collects 1990s American Orthodox samizdat
New in the "Object of Desire" column is the book "Death to the World. Volume One: Genesis", which gathers all the material from the original Orthodox American samizdat "Death to the World" of the 1990s, published by the monks of the Monastery of St
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Queen of England Henrietta Maria in satirical pamphlets and the reasons for her unpopularity
She who lives to eat and is mad for sweetmeats, whose only pleasure is her belly and her throat, who stuffs her cheeks and her paunch, a gluttonous queen, grows fat herself and makes her husband's purse lean. The main thing is not to become like the Queen
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The Division of Day and Night
Guido Reni, 1599
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Shrovetide celebrations at a kindergarten in Malakhovka
Children with plastic bags on their heads play at being snowballs. This put me in mind of Shrovetide at my own kindergarten, and the chief impression it left: a strange bewilderment that nobody could properly explain what sort of holiday it was, or why someone had to be burned. I