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Port Arthur in 1945
Photograph by Yevgeny Khaldei
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In 2013 the Library of Congress published a report with the eloquent title “The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912–1929”, from which it follows that we have lost for ever 75% of the creative legacy of the era that raised…
Between 1912 and 1929 some 11,000 silent feature films were released in the United States. Only a small part of them has survived to the present day. The chief cause of the losses was deliberate destruction. Before home cinema and television, films were considered useless once their run was
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Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna leaving a funeral service in the Lutheran Church of Saints Peter and Paul on Nevsky Prospect in Saint Petersburg
Archaeology · Archive · Museums · Science
Fitzwilliam Museum finds jackal on Book of the Dead papyrus was repainted to look slimmer
Researchers discover that the ancient Egyptians used an equivalent of correction fluid to fix mistakes on papyri. While preparing a papyrus some 3,300 years old for the exhibition "Made in Ancient Egypt" at the Fitzwilliam Museum in England, staff noticed that the painted figure of a jackal
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The writers Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov in 1930
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Anna Yaroslavna's signature on French charters and her role as co-ruler
On a charter of King Philip I of France in favour of the Abbey of Saint-Crépin at Soissons, dated 1063, among Latin texts and the crosses of illiterate magnates stand two words in Cyrillic: "АНА РЪИНА" Queen Anna. This is the only surviving authentic signature of Anna
Archive · Moscow · Education
Spring in the Moscow State University Park, 1960s
Viktor Akhlomov
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Boris and Naina Yeltsin at a 8 March celebration in Sverdlovsk in the late 1970s
Boris Yeltsin, First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU, with his wife Naina Yeltsina at the 8 March celebrations. Approximately 1977–1980, the city of Sverdlovsk
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"High-Rise Building" cake, made for 8 March 1954 by the architect-draughtsmen designing the "Stalin skyscrapers"
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A performance by a circle of physical culturists in honour of the celebration of 8 March in the city of Omsk in 1935
Archive · Observations · Society · Saint Petersburg
Demonstration of Petrograd Women Workers against Hunger, War and Tsarism on 23 February (8 March) 1917
Dear girls, women, mothers! Happy the holiday of not keeping silent about your rights! Which one may wish for everyone, on any day of the year
Archive · Faith · Books · Ethnography
Semeyskie Old Believers in Transbaikalia in memoirs recorded by Sergey Maksimov
The treasury did not help our grandfathers. An official brought them to the place. They began to ask him: where are we to live? – he pointed to the mountains... They began to press him: what are we to live on? The official said: “Why, when you start felling timber, the