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Elephants bathing in an engraving of 1682 from the Rijksmuseum
Elephants frolicking in the water. Engraving, 1682. Rijksmuseum
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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s installation “The Toilet” at Documenta in Kassel in 1992
The installation "The Toilet", Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Documenta festival, Kassel, Germany, 1992 We lived in a communal flat, and everyone used the same toilet… Good Lord! How does one build and preserve a wall between oneself and others, so that "they", these others, only appear
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Exhibition “Always Zoya. An Exhibition Novel” on Zoya Boguslavskaya at the Voznesensky Center
The exhibition "Always Zoya. An Exhibition Novel" at the Voznesensky Centre is remarkably cohesive, although it embraces so many different incarnations of Zoya Borisovna: science, journalism, literature, civic engagement, art, all the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, the stories of the great figures who became part of her
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Elizabeth II, Charles III and Princess Anne at Balmoral Castle in 1952
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Incorrect date of Peter and Catherine's marriage in Gerakov's 1807 book
I have found a most ludicrous discrepancy in the text of Gavriil Gerakov's book "Memorable Events in Russian History from the Birth of Peter the Great to His Death" Gerakov writes that Peter married Catherine (Alexeyevna, that is, Marta) of the Skavronsky family in May 1707,
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Lines from Ivan Pnin’s 1805 poem “Man” on the condition of the slave
In what dread expanse I behold The Slave apart from Man, One, like the sun in a clear sky, The Other as gloomy as the earth. One is everything, the other a nullity, If only he had known his slavish duty, Had questioned nature; had examined Who is to blame
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Anatoly Mariengof's poem about 1917 and the break with the past
Each day of ours is a new chapter of the Bible. Each page will be Great to thousands of generations. We are those of whom they will say: "The lucky ones, they lived in 1917." And you are still wailing: we are lost! Still squandering your whimpers! Foolish
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Lightning Strikes the Eiffel Tower, Summer 1902
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Vogue Covers of the 1920s
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The Front Page of an American Newspaper from 1950 Devoted to the Murder of the Romanovs
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The Gnezdo Art Group of Donskoy, Roshal and Skersis and Its Action at the VDNKh Exhibition
A Graph of History. The Gnezdo group, 1976. Gnezdo ("The Nest") was an art group founded by the artists Gennady Donskoy, Mikhail Roshal and Viktor Skersis, active from 1975 to 1979. The group took its name from the art action "Quiet! Experiment in Progress", staged at
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Tatyana Grigoryevna Nazarenko, Museum of the Revolution, 1989
The Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val