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5 December 1931

5 December 1931. The writer Korney Chukovsky recorded in his diary: "A sunny, frosty day, with silver smoke and a blue sky. Tram No. 10 took me not to the Stone Bridge but to the Zamoskvoretsky one, since they are blowing up the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour nearby.

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"Instead of a den of opium, the Palace of Soviets!" – inscription on the hoarding around the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

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A charming sarcophagus, nineteenth-century photograph

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A Christmas Card of 1920 with a View of Paris

A Christmas card of 1920 with a view of Paris. Today is Eiffel's birthday

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11 December 1813: King Ferdinand VII of Spain leaves the Château de Valençay, where Talleyrand had held him captive on Napoleon's orders for a popular-backed attempt at a coup against Charles IV and the queen's favourite, Godoy

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The Reconciliation of the Churches in 1965 Was Preceded by a Curious Incident in Early 1962

Pope Paul VI sent the Patriarchate of Constantinople an invitation for representatives of the Orthodox Church to take part in the Second Vatican Council as observers. A special commission was created for the occasion, to which various Orthodox churches were invited. And, following the considered decision of this commission, Patriarch

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The Declaration on the Lifting of the Mutual Anathemas Was Worked Out by Special Commissions Over Several Months

The Declaration on the lifting of the mutual anathemas was worked out by special commissions over several months. It was resolved to adopt it after the first meeting of the primates of the Eastern and Western churches since 1439, held in January 1964

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On 7 December 1965, Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople and Pope Paul VI lifted the mutual anathemas imposed on the Catholic and Orthodox Churches in 1064 by Pope Leo IX and Patriarch Michael I

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Peskov says the new information security doctrine poses no threat to historians

A WORD PUT IN FOR THE 28 PANFILOV MEN. Peskov reports that the new information security doctrine poses no threat to historians with an alternative opinion: "On the contrary, historical research and work in the archives are work to which great importance is attached. At the same time, it

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A Historical View of the Alexeyevsky Monastery

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Leopold von Ranke, archival sources and seminars at the University of Berlin

The greatest German historian Leopold von Ranke, who lived to be over ninety, was the author of a great many works: on the history of the papacy, the Reformation, modern history, the sovereigns of southern Europe, and so on. His approach was distinguished by the fact that Ranke did not

Skulls of horned dinosaurs with frills and horns are mounted on a museum wall, joined by white lines. A visitor at the railing is taking a photograph.

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