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Leo Tolstoy, a Land Surveyor and the Peasant Prokofy Vlasov at Yasnaya Polyana in 1890

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On 21 February 1928 the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) considered the question "On 'Zoyka's Apartment'":

In view of the fact that "Zoyka's Apartment" is the principal source of livelihood for the Vakhtangov Theatre, to permit the temporary lifting of the ban on its production At the beginning of 1928 the new head of the Main Repertory Committee (Glavrepertkom), Fyodor Raskolnikov, struck

Colourised photograph of a man in a cap leaning out of a lorry cab, with another man seated in a tiny car beside it.

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AEC Matador lorry beside a tiny Rytecraft car in Cardiff in 1935

And mind you don't play up! An AEC Matador meets a little Rytecraft in Cardiff, 1935

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Installing the Dome of the Cathedral in Kaliningrad, 1994

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The Anthem of the Soviet Union in Sergei Mikhalkov's Study at the Writers' Union

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Modest Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov", orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and in the version of Leonid Baratov, on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre

Modest Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov", orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and in the version of Leonid Baratov, on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. Alexander Pirogov as Boris, Bronislava Zlatogorova as Fyodor, Nikandr Khanayev as Shuisky, Alexander Peregudov as the boyar Khrushchov. Photo by Semyon Mishin-

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Portraits of the First Twelve Caesars, and of 63 of Their Wives and Relatives, Engraved from Ancient Coins; Together with Their Lives and Deeds, Gathered from Various Authors

Portraits of the First Twelve Caesars, and of 63 of Their Wives and Relatives, Engraved from Ancient Coins; Together with Their Lives and Deeds, Gathered from Various Authors. Primorum Caesarum et LXIII Ipsorum Uxorum et Parentum, by Levinus Hulsius. A rare Renaissance numismatic book, published in 1597 and 1599. It

Black-and-white photograph of a soldier with a submachine gun on his back, reaching up to write on a wall covered with inscriptions and bullet marks.

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A soldier writes on a wall in Anatoly Morozov's photograph of 9 May 1945

Happy Victory Day! Photograph by Anatoly Morozov, 9 May 1945

Black-and-white photograph: a serviceman in a peaked cap stands on a snowy slope before a pile of twisted machinery and wagon wreckage.

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Heaps of destroyed German equipment in Sevastopol in May 1944, photographed by Yevgeny Khaldei

Smashed German equipment in Sevastopol, May 1944. Photograph by Yevgeny Khaldei

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The National Museum of Denmark has held a collection of some five-thousand-year-old clay tablets from Mesopotamia and Syria in storage for about a hundred years

The National Museum of Denmark has held a collection of some five-thousand-year-old clay tablets from Mesopotamia and Syria in storage for about a hundred years. Since the material is cuneiform, nobody took the tablets seriously. Until the Hidden Treasures project of the University of Copenhagen and the

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Scouts cordon off Khanzhonkov's burning studio in the courtyard of the Savvinsky Compound

Boy Scouts Cordoning Off the Burning Savvinskoye Compound in 1918. The fire was not in the building of the Savvinskoye Compound itself, but in the studio of Alexandr Khanzhonkov, the man who filmed "The Defence of Sevastopol" and "The Beautiful Lukanida". The studio stood in the

Black and white photo of a man in a suit and a blonde woman with a guitar sitting close together in front of a carpet, with two glasses on the table.

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Retouching in a photograph from the film “Once Again About Love” with Lazarev and Doronina

Can anyone explain why half of this photograph has been painted in? The hand has come out very strangely, both on Alexander Lazarev and on Tatyana Doronina. From the film "Once More About Love" by Georgy Natanson