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Depiction of the Great Firework Displayed in Saint Petersburg on the Evening of the New Year 1755 upon the River Neva Before the Winter House of Her Imperial Majesty. The explanatory sheet states that the great firework was given in honour of Her Imperial Majesty Elizabeth I, Autocrat of All
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Illustration from the Magnificent Hours of Notre-Dame, 1378/80.
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Photograph of 1960 by Hilmar Pabel, the square in front of the Belorussky Station
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The Russians are unanimous that Peter III was a good parent, a good friend, a good husband; he would certainly have been a good father, had he not been convinced that "Prince Paul" was an exotic plant transplanted into a hothouse to which he had no key. In
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In the New Year of 1766 the admirable orator and thinker Platon, Metropolitan of Moscow, delivered in the court church a Sermon before Catherine II and the heir Pavel Petrovich on the essence and nature of time. The address is rich and beautiful; I shall quote a few passages, and
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I read how His Imperial Highness Pavel Petrovich, the future Emperor Paul I, celebrated his tenth birthday. The first to congratulate the Tsesarevich that morning was his confessor, the hieromonk Platon Levshin, after which the heir was led to the apartments of Her Majesty, and together with the Empress he
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Konstantin Lipskerov, 1916. Poems written under the impression of a journey to Turkestan
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The Christmas Truce of the First World War, 24–25 December 1914. The truce was not observed along the whole front, but in some sectors the guns fell silent
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