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This hanging in the Large Dining Room of the collector Sergei Shchukin's house was called the Gauguin iconostasis by the art critic Yakov Tugendhold

This hanging in the Large Dining Room of the collector Sergei Shchukin's house was called the Gauguin iconostasis by the art critic Yakov Tugendhold. At the exhibition in the Hermitage, the iconostasis could be reproduced almost in its entirety

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The History of the French Kings in a Single Picture

Detail of an antique map of north-western North America, with a green area labelled Russian America.

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Russian America on an English-language map of 1860, where Alaska would later be

Not Alaska but Russian America. 1860

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Photographs of Igor Stravinsky as a Model of Men's Style

A vendor in glasses and a woman with a bag at market stalls piled with tomatoes, peaches and beans.

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Giulio Corinaldi's photograph of the Rialto market in Venice, 1960

The Rialto Market, Venice, 1960. Photo by Giulio Corinaldi

Black-and-white photo of boys in shorts lying on a granite plinth with a large urn on a square, a metro station pavilion behind them.

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Children sunbathing near Arbatskaya metro station in Moscow in the 1960s

Children sunbathing near Arbatskaya metro station in the 1960s. Consider how much more human and simple life in Moscow was sixty years ago. Today the city is deprived of such ordinary joys, yet it is drowning in formal conveniences

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Filming Ghostbusters, 1984

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Satie, Debussy and Stravinsky at a dinner in Debussy's apartment in June 1910

A Party at Debussy's House. These photographs show three composers who did much to shape the face of music at the beginning of the twentieth century: Erik Satie, Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky. The first photograph was taken by Stravinsky, the second by Satie. Stravinsky sits in the

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Mary Allen Wilkes

Mary Allen Wilkes. A legend. This year the first person to use a personal computer at home turns 85

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Paris, the Champs-Élysées, 1900

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Holiday mood with John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., summer 1986, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, home of the Kennedy family residences

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You Must Put Up With Her for Another Five Years

You must put up with her for another five years. The front-page headline of the Daily Mirror after Margaret Thatcher was elected for a third term as Prime Minister in 1987. The forecast, incidentally, proved wrong: the Iron Lady resigned in 1990