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This is a photograph by Lee Miller, taken during the German bombing of London, which began in September 1940 and continued until May 1941. The Luftwaffe attacked the city for 57 nights in succession. The raids destroyed or damaged more than a million buildings and killed about 43,000 civilians.
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Yesterday we read the verse of Apollon Korinfsky; today let us see what he looked like. The photograph, from 1914, shows Apollon Korinfsky with his family on holiday. Apollon Apollonovich Korinfsky was born in 1868 in Simbirsk and died in 1937 in Tver, in exile, by then quite an elderly
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The sisters Lilya Brik and Elsa Triolet show off dresses by Nadezhda Lamanova before the lens of the photographer Germaine Krull during a shoot in Berlin in 1925 for the newspaper Excelsior-Dimanche. Lilya Brik and Elsa Triolet were not mannequins. One was Mayakovsky's beloved and the chief
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Photograph by Igor Gnevashev, 1965
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Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do. As Zinaida Gippius wrote: Our grandfathers' impossible dream, The sacrifice of our heroes in their prison cells, Our prayer on timid lips, Our hope and our sigh: The Constituent Assembly, What have we done with it...? Literal translation
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It was taken by Pyotr Ivanovich Vedenisov in Yalta in the 1910s, using the technology of the Lumière brothers. Pyotr Vedenisov graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire in 1888, moved to Yalta and spent the rest of his life there as a pianist, local historian, meteorologist and amateur photographer with a
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In 1618 an engraving with a view of Moscow appeared in the six-volume atlas of the cities of the world, Civitates Orbis Terrarum. The atlas was compiled by the Cologne priest Georg Braun, beginning in 1572, and this was already the second map of Moscow in the edition. A
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Photograph by Cecil Beaton, 1955
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Yot, Yery, the Soft Sign and the Hard Sign are stuck up a tree. From the Russian Alphabet in Painted Pictures on Canvas. Saint Petersburg: Published by M. O. Wolf.