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VICTIM OF THE NEW ORDER
Mathilde Kschessinska: My intimate relations with the old government came easily to me: it consisted of just one man. But what am I to do now, when the new government, the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, consists of 2,000 people? Caricature by Nikolai Remizov (Re-Mi)
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In 1939, Serge Lifar, dancer of the Ballets Russes and at that time principal ballet master of the Paris Opéra, came to visit the famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, who was undergoing treatment in a psychiatric clinic
In 1939, Serge Lifar, dancer of the Ballets Russes and at that time principal ballet master of the Paris Opéra, came to visit the famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, who was undergoing treatment in a psychiatric clinic. By 1939 Vaslav Nijinsky had been ill for almost 20 years. The ballet dancer
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The Sagrada Família in 1920
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Vladimir and Véra Nabokov at the Montreux Palace Hotel
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Sophia Loren by a sphinx and Cleopatra’s Needle, given to Britain in 1819
Sophia Loren in 1967 beside one of the two London sphinxes flanking the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle on the Victoria Embankment. The sphinxes are cast in bronze to frame the obelisk. The 18-metre obelisk was brought to London from Alexandria in 1877, although it had been
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Alexander Kohts, the biologist who founded the Darwin Museum, with colleagues in a teaching display in 1912
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The Revolt of the Toads
Unpublished Khlebnikov, 1929 You know whom to send it to
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History of conduct grades in Russian schools from the 1918 ban to the 1943 numerical scale
In addition to three Unified State Exam papers, universities will now take into account an "integral score" made up of a schoolchild's general academic performance and discipline. I wholeheartedly support the importance of grading behaviour at school. Let us remember that the task of the school
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Trophies and all spoils from the enemy shall belong to the troops who take the same
From the defensive alliance between Paul I, Emperor of All Russia, and the King of Prussia, 16 July 1800
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A Little Inuit Girl with a Puppy in Her Hood, Photographed in 1949
A little Inuit girl and her puppy. 1949
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