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Suvorin's bookshop on Nevsky Prospect and his publishing business from 1872

Stocktaking at the Bookshop of the A. Suvorin Partnership on Nevsky Prospect in Saint Petersburg in the early 1900s. Photograph by Karl Bulla. In Moscow, Suvorin's shop stood on Nikolskaya Street and later on Neglinnaya Street. Suvorin took up publishing in 1872 with the issue of a universal

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George Bernard Shaw with a surfboard on the South African coast at the age of 75, 1931

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Boris Shalyapin, who moved to France, on a walk through Moscow in 1960

Boris Chaliapin in Moscow in 1960. A stroll past the Ryabushinsky mansion, the Church of the Great Ascension at the Nikitsky Gates and along Spiridonovka. The elder son of Feodor Chaliapin, who had moved to France in 1925, visited Moscow several times during the years of the Thaw. An exhibition

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Exhibition on the Khorezm Expedition combines archive documents and contemporary art

The Museum of the East has lent unique materials from the excavations of the Khorezm Archaeological and Ethnographic Expedition for the exhibition "Neither Together Nor Apart" at GES-2, on the link between archaeology and modernism and on how art can make. The Khorezm Expedition worked from 1937

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The 1914 Pamir expedition of Gauthiot and Zarubin and Paléologue's memoir of the scholar

In the memoirs of Maurice Georges Paléologue, French Ambassador to Russia, there is a curious recollection of meeting the well-known linguist Robert Edmund Gauthiot, who explored the Russian territories of the Pamirs together with the young Russian schola. The story runs as follows. In 1914 Zarubin, as a linguist

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Stonehenge, a photograph of 1944

The monument owes its present appearance to repeated interventions in its structure. In 1901 the first major restoration was carried out, with the participation of the archaeologist William Gowland, who straightened and secured one of the stones, which was in danger of falling. In the process the stone was moved

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The Arc de Triomphe draped for the funeral of Victor Hugo in 1885

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"Jewish communities everywhere have offered up their prayers for His late Majesty, and now they will offer up their sincere prayers for Her Majesty the Queen, as she takes upon herself the heavy burden of ruling the countries of the British Commonwealth"

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The last week, until 25 May, of the exhibition "Love in the Avant-Garde" at the Zotov Centre

The exhibition "Love in the Avant-Garde. Mikhail Matyushin and Elena Guro" runs at the Zotov Centre for its last week, until 25 May. It is devoted to two rarely mentioned figures of the Russian avant-garde and to their influence on one another, in their work and

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Deleted Scenes from the Film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears"

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Bulgakov's play "The Cabal of Hypocrites", written in 1929 and devoted to the hardships of Molière's life under the yoke of Louis XIV, was permitted to be staged only after the vigorous intervention of Gorky, after a conversation between the author and St

Rehearsals at the Moscow Art Theatre dragged on, however, and the play reached the stage only in February 1936, to colossal success! But first in "Sovetskoye iskusstvo" and then, barely a week later, in "Pravda", there appeared devastating reviews. I give the text of the "

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Queen Elizabeth so resembles her younger sister, Princess Margaret, that a newspaper, under a joint photograph of the two on their way to the dying Mary of Teck, found it necessary to specify that the queen is in the middle