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Russian Ministry of Finance on European money markets and the rouble to mark rate

And I, what of it? I simply rejoice at Russia's financial triumphs of 1891. "The key to the financial position of Europe lies in the Russian Ministry of Finance... The Russian Ministry of Finance serves Europe as a brokers' bank... Russian influence on the money markets

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General Map of the Russian Empire's Northern and Eastern Shores, Compiled on 10 May 1746 at the Naval Academy

Two young men with wet hair in water up to their necks beside the side of a boat, one of them smiling.

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Future King Edward VIII and his cousin Louis Mountbatten in their youth

They were young, merry, discovering the world... The future King Edward VIII and his cousin, the future Viceroy of India, Louis Mountbatten: - imagine, after all this our nephews will marry - and will rule England - and will rule England - you idiot, stop it))))))

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Humour: an Engaging Oddity of the Mind

Humour: an engaging oddity of the mind. A humorist: a merry jester. A humoristess: a clever wag. From the Dictionary of the Church Slavonic and Russian Language of the Second Section of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1847

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There is no personal sacrifice I would not be ready to make in the interests of France: on 12 April 1814 Napoleon signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau, renouncing the throne for himself and his children and departing into exile on the island of Elba

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Elizabeth II with her father, husband, son, sister and mother

Elizabeth II with her father, husband, son, sister and mother. In the course of her long life she bade farewell to everyone present in this photograph, Charles excepted

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Zhirinovsky's favourite teacher Serafima Nikonova and the graduates of 1964

Vladimir Zhirinovsky with the class of 1964. The elderly lady in the photograph is Zhirinovsky's favourite teacher, Serafima Filatovna Nikonova. Vladimir Volfovich spoke of her repeatedly in his interviews, even quite late ones, when he was already advanced in years, saying that he remembered her as a highly

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Ingrid Bergman with her twin daughters, Isotta and Isabella Rossellini

Old photograph of an elderly woman in dark clothes and a hat seated in a small carriage drawn by a white donkey in front of a columned building.

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Photograph of Queen Victoria in a donkey-drawn carriage in Dublin

Well, here we are! Queen Victoria in a donkey cart, Dublin

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Museum ticket prices in Saint Petersburg from a twenty-year-old Afisha guidebook

Admission prices at Saint Petersburg's main museums, from a twenty-year-old Afisha guidebook. A ticket to the Hermitage museums: 15 roubles; entry to the Museum of Decorative and Applied Art: 10 roubles; to the Yelagin Palace: 5 roubles. Just twenty years ago! How is that for nostalgia?

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Klyuchevsky on the global significance of Alexander III's reign in a speech of 28 October 1894

"Thirteen years of the reign of Emperor Alexander III have passed, and the more hurriedly the hand of death hastened to close His eyes, the wider and more astonished grew the eyes of Europe to the world significance of this brief reign. At last even the stones cried out:

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