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A delegation of Pioneers addressed the Congress with a greeting. Among the various groups of participants were children brought to the Congress by Samuil Marshak, who delivered a report arguing that writing for children is harder than writing for adults. The children were a living example of the reading audience
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Photo by Yury Rybchinsky Anastasia, the younger sister of Marina Tsvetaeva, also travelled a far from easy road. Her first husband, the chemical engineer Mauritius Mints, died of peritonitis only two years after the wedding, in the Crimea, at the house of Maximilian Voloshin, where they had gone after the
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On 31 August 1941, in evacuation at Yelabuga, Marina Tsvetaeva took her own life. That day her son Mur and the mistress of the house were sent off to clear a site for an airfield; she was left alone and hanged herself in the entrance passage. In the kitchen a
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Christ Pantocrator in the Church of St John the Baptist in Tolchkovo, Yaroslavl. Frescoes of the 1690s by the artel of Dmitry Plekhanov and Fyodor Ignatyev Photograph of the 1940s
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Photo by Georgy Rozov
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11 roubles 73 kopecks. That is now the price of looking at a single leaf of an archival file in the Sverdlovsk Region online. Not downloading it, not printing it, merely seeing it on a screen. Many people are discussing the resolution issued by the regional government on 19 August:
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A scene from a play on a theme from Russian history. The photograph was taken by Karl Bulla in Saint Petersburg in the 1910s
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Statute on Zemstvo Institutions, with All Relevant Enactments and with Judicial and Governmental Clarifications. Author: Mysh
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