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The 1862 newspaper “Obshchee veche” by Ogarev and Kelsiev, on Nicholas I
No, this is not a Russian tsar, not a tsar of the land, such as the people imagined him, from whom they awaited justice; this is simply a Petersburg emperor, born of German parents, sent for from across the sea to inherit the throne. From the newspaper Obshchee veche [The
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Emblem of a weeping eye in the English book “Minerva Britanna” of 1612
Woe Is Me, That I Have Seen This. An emblem with a weeping eye, from the English counterpart of the "Emblemata", the 1612 book "Minerva Britanna, or A Garden of Heroical Devises"
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The Demolition of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, 5 December 1931
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Claude Monet's promissory note of 18 October 1875
Claude Monet's promissory note of 18 October 1875. In the document the artist acknowledges receipt of a loan of 1,000 francs from Gustave Manet, brother of the painter Édouard Manet. To obtain the loan, Monet had to pledge 35 paintings. The artist promises to repay the debt
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Leo Tolstoy's romance with Ekaterina Tyutcheva in 1857 and 1858 and the prototype of Kitty
Tyutcheva is beginning to please me quietly... Little by little, but she has taken hold of me seriously and wholly So Leo Tolstoy recalls Ekaterina Tyutcheva in his diary. In my alternative historical imagination I sometimes wonder what would have happened had Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy in fact married Ekaterina Tyutcheva,
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Salvador Dalí and Velázquez's portrait of Philip IV at prayer in the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial in 1964
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A waiter lights a guest's cigar in a photograph taken in Moscow in 1997
Chuck Norris and Vladimir Zhirinovsky in Heaven. Photograph taken in Moscow in 1997
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Saint Joseph cooking for the Mother of God and Christ in a miniature of 1450
A miniature of the Holy Family, dated 1450, shows Saint Joseph preparing a meal for the Virgin and Christ. An angel hallows the scene with the presence of the heavenly world. According to tradition, while living in Egypt with the Virgin Mary and Christ, Joseph earned their keep by working
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Decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna of 14 December 1742 on the withdrawal from circulation of coins bearing the image of the deposed Ivan Antonovich: part of the systematic obliteration of the memory of the overthrown infant emperor, whom Elizabeth remov
Whereas by the most gracious decree of Her Imperial Majesty, published among the people on 31 December of the past year 1741, it was ordered that coins bearing the portrait of Prince Ivan, in whosoever's hands they may be, be brought for exchange to the mints until the
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Portrait of Leo Tolstoy, taken by Sofya Andreyevna at Yasnaya Polyana on 28 August 1908, his eightieth birthday
A photograph from the exhibition "Sofya Andreyevna Tolstaya, Photographer. The Countess Takes Pictures with a Kodak", which runs until 12 April at the State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO in Saint Petersburg, at 35 Bolshaya Morskaya Street
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Sergei Parajanov and Yuri Mgoyan in Tbilisi in 1988
Parajanov met Mgoyan in Tbilisi. The young man had no connection with cinema whatever, but the director saw in him the hero of Lermontov's oriental tale, all the more so as he expected no psychological game, wanting instead to see plastic expressiveness and the ability to be a