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The poodle Marquis, together with Leo Tolstoy, Alexandra Tolstaya, Pavel Dolgorukov, chairman of the Moscow Literacy Society, Tatyana Sukhotina, Varvara Feokritova and Pavel Biryukov, is on the way to the opening of the People's Library in the village of
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Alexander Blok and Lyubov Dmitrievna Mendeleeva
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The 1903 wedding of Alexander Blok and Lyubov Mendeleeva in the church at Tarakanovo
Do you remember the lines "A girl was singing in a church choir of all the weary in a foreign land"? In them Blok immortalised the Church of the Archangel Michael in the village of Tarakanovo. In his memoirs he writes of it as follows: Mendeleev and my
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Shrovetide celebrations at a kindergarten in Malakhovka
Children with plastic bags on their heads play at being snowballs. This put me in mind of Shrovetide at my own kindergarten, and the chief impression it left: a strange bewilderment that nobody could properly explain what sort of holiday it was, or why someone had to be burned. I
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Ilya Kabakov in Hamburg in April 1996
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Mendeleev on a professor's salary in 1890 and its conversion into modern roubles
In the old days, when I lectured, a professor's salary of 3000 roubles was so ample that I could even keep a footman – I took on Alyosha, you know. But does it provide so well now? If I were a minister and were asked to name what a
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Alexander Gradsky during the filming of Andrei Konchalovsky's "A Romance of Lovers" in 1973
photo by Yevgeny Umnov
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Winter in Moscow in the 1950s in the photographs of Vladimir Stepanov: Red Square, the Yauza embankment, Novoalekseyevskaya Street, Sokolniki, Furmanny Lane, Volkhonka, the Bolshoi Theatre, Gogolevsky Boulevard
Vladimir Stepanov Foundation
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Genealogy traces Elizabeth II and her descendants to the patriarch Jacob and his son Judah
According to this genealogical construction, the English royal family, namely Elizabeth II and her descendants, trace their origin to the progenitor of the 12 Tribes of Israel, the third Old Testament patriarch Jacob, called Israel. What is more, Elizabeth is a descendant of Jacob-Israel and his son Judah not
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Darwin listed the pros and cons of marriage and wed his cousin Emma
A reminder that Darwin was not merely drawing up a list of the advantages and drawbacks of marriage before deciding to wed, but following the ideas of Benthamism then in vogue, and specifically Jeremy Bentham's schemes of "moral arithmetic" The Darwin archive holds an amusing sheet
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