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Room filled with paintings and sculptures in a 1974 photograph by Igor Palmin
The artist Vladimir Yankilevsky in his studio on Preobrazhenskaya Street. Photograph by Igor Palmin, 1974
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At the St Petersburg International Legal Forum, Deputy Minister of Culture Zhanna Alexeyeva announced that a closed repository for literature of a "destructive nature" is being created at the Lenin Library, and called it a "spetskhran"
First of all, it must be explained at once that the spetskhran has existed in the Lenin Library all along; nobody abolished this department with the collapse of the USSR, it was merely the regime of access and the principle by which it is filled that changed. Pornographic and extremist
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Nobody:
Absolutely nobody: Peter I's decree "On Maintaining Cleanliness in Moscow": still in force
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The Dovecote Dacha, or Simply the Dacha Behind the Donskoy Monastery: One of Old Moscow's Unusual and Enigmatic Buildings
The Dovecote Dacha, or simply the dacha behind the Donskoy Monastery, is one of the unusual and enigmatic buildings of old Moscow. A great deal is known about it, but just as much has been invented, as so often happens, by city tour guides and mere lovers of historical sensations.
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Dima Sukhanov in a photograph by Vladimir Karlov, 1992
A Boy with Burdock Leaves from the Kaluga Region Will Bring You Summer. 1992, photograph by Vladimir Karlov, featuring Dima Sukhanov
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Norman French in the Royal Assent Formula of British Acts of Parliament
I cannot find a good-quality photograph of this act, but the document is very famous. And it begins with the following words: Le Roy le Veult soit baillé aux Seigneurs. A cette Bille avecque des amendemens les Seigneurs sont assentuz. A ces Amendemens les Communes sont assentuz. And no,
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Lyudmila Chursina and Vladimir Basov on the set of the legendary Soviet war drama “The Shield and the Sword” in 1968
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The state of the Sagrada Família in 1905, more than twenty years after construction began
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Talbot's salted paper, the first method of positive photographic printing on paper
Saw this photograph of the stallion Belyi from the 1880s and became curious about the "salted paper" or "salt paper" technique in which it was made. Salted paper is the earliest method of positive photographic printing on paper, invented by William Henry Fox Talbot at the
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After Leonardo da Vinci's death, his manuscripts first passed to his last pupil, Francesco Melzi
After Leonardo da Vinci's death, his manuscripts first passed to his last pupil, Francesco Melzi. But years later Melzi's children decided to sell the da Vinci archives, and they were acquired by the Tuscan sculptor Pompeo Leoni. Leoni reassembled part of the notebooks, unstitched the quires,
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The Linyov portrait of Pushkin and the unresolved questions of its authorship
Ever seen a Pushkin like this? Not the most popular nor the most comprehensible of his portraits, usually called the "Linyov" portrait after an unidentified amateur artist, Ivan Logginovich Linyov. The authorship of this work, like its provenance, is enigmatic. Originally the portrait was signed simply "I.
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93.26 per cent of voters in the Crimean referendum backed restoring autonomy
On 20 January 1991 the first referendum in the history of the USSR was held in Crimea, with the following question put to the vote: "Are you in favour of the re-establishment of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic as a subject of the USSR and. The right