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A Moscow grandee, poet and celebrated writer, Yury Alexandrovich Neledinsky-Meletsky, found a touching and ingenious way of calming the anxieties of his ailing wife over the fate of their only son Sergei, who served in the years of the Patriotic War…

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A Moscow grandee, poet and celebrated writer, Yury Alexandrovich Neledinsky-Meletsky, found a touching and ingenious way of calming the anxieties of his ailing wife over the fate of their only son Sergei, who served in the years of the Patriotic War…

Yekaterina Khovanskaya, like many mothers, suffered greatly when no word came from her son, especially during the chief and bloodiest battles, which only aggravated her already very frail condition. The son was a notorious carouser and simply forgot to write home, so his papa devised a stratagem: he asked him,

By Alexandr Radayev
Illustrations of craftsmen from a fifteenth-century manuscript commissioned by the Mendel family of Nuremberg, founders of an almshouse for elderly masters

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Illustrations of craftsmen from a fifteenth-century manuscript commissioned by the Mendel family of Nuremberg, founders of an almshouse for elderly masters

Illustrations of craftsmen from a fifteenth-century manuscript commissioned by the Mendel family of Nuremberg, founders of an almshouse for elderly masters. Later, other families who owned workshops also commissioned similar registers of their craftsmen. The mail-maker bends wire, while a finished shirt of mail hangs limp on the

By Alexandr Radayev
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