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A Muscovite Woman Choosing a Birch Broom at the Central Market in 1958. The Central Moscow Market stood at 15 Tsvetnoy Boulevard and at that time still operated out of wooden pavilions, before the construction of the city's first permanent covered market building. The multi-storey market was
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In August 1939, Jacques Jaujard, Director of the French National Museums, carried out the largest and most secret operation to save the world's art. A few days before the outbreak of the Second World War, the Louvre was suddenly closed to the public on the pretext of routine
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The physiologist Ivan Pavlov with his colleagues and students of the Military Medical Academy before a demonstration of experiments on the transmission of conditioned reflexes. Professor Georgy Konradi recalled that Ivan Petrovich had quite literally grown into one with the dog as an object of study, and that when demonstrating
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The ceremonial hall of the Academy of Arts library. Saint Petersburg, 1900s
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The Hall of the Muses in the Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum in 1947. Oranienbaum was the only one of the suburban residences of Saint Petersburg that did not fall under occupation during the Great Patriotic War. The Germans were stopped on the approaches to the town in September 1941, and
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In October 1944 the head of the Ancient East department of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts submitted an official memorandum to the museum's director about a business trip to the town of Sukhoy Log in the Sverdlovsk region. Vsevolod Pavlov, a specialist in Ancient Egypt who had
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In a photograph of the 1910s taken in Saint Petersburg by the master of reportage Iosif Otsup, Alexandr Kuprin sits second from the left at a laid table. The archivists of Pushkin House have provisionally titled this negative a novelist's feast in the company of friends. The identities
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It turns out that for the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, in 1927, the monument to Alexander III on Uprising Square was put in a cage. The project was devised by the architect Ivan Fomin, author of the concept of proletarian classicism, known for the NKVD building on Lubyanka
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Delivery of goods by camel. Kurgan station on the South Ural Railway, 1890s
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The lion tamer Irina Bugrimova with a lion in the early 1960s. Photograph by Semyon Mishin-Morgenstern. Irina Bugrimova was the first woman lion tamer in the USSR and a People's Artist of the Soviet Union. She was born on 13 March 1910 in Kharkiv, into the family
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THEIRS: Crisis, unemployment, hunger, destitution and the preparation of war against the USSR. And mind you don't mix them up! A two-part poster by the artists Gleb Grigoryev and Boris Iordansky on the not yet demolished Iverskaya or Voskresenskiye Gates in the wall of Kitay-gorod. Photograph
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The Babylonian poem "The Poor Man of Nippur", composed around 701 BC and devoted to the duty of hospitality and to vengeance for an undeserved insult. A poor man from the city of Nippur gives up his last possession and brings a goat as a gift to the