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In December 1893 Arthur Conan Doyle published "The Final Problem" in The Strand Magazine, bringing the cycle of stories about the noble detective to a close

In December 1893 Arthur Conan Doyle published "The Final Problem" in The Strand Magazine, bringing the cycle of stories about the noble detective to a close. At the end of the story Professor Moriarty kills Sherlock Holmes: the two of them fall together from a cliff at the

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Igor Lantsman's bar makes its debut at the Peredelkino House of Creativity

Igor Lantsman, exemplary master of ceremonies of the "secret" bar at the Peredelkino Writers' Retreat, celebrates his debut today. The lads have managed to recreate that very atmosphere of old Peredelkino, if it is developed through a Wes Anderson lens. Zakuski, Lagidze Waters, mosaics by the early

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I accept everything I am given, except my age

The French writer Louise de Vilmorin

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Adjunct Vasily Adodurov proposed abolishing yer, fita and izhitsa in the 1730s

Vasily Adodurov, Adjunct of the Academy of Sciences and a contemporary of Lomonosov, played a weighty part as early as the 1730s in establishing the norms of Russian orthography. True, many of his ideas were too progressive and remained no more than a project. He thought it sensible to rid

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For lovers of the inapposite but grandiloquent turn of phrase: yes, you can now say you have seen Marcel Proust in his coffin

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Sumarokov condemned loanwords, while Trediakovsky derived the word amazon from omuzhonka

If Sumarokov railed against borrowings and called for the extermination of foreign words, declaring: "Foreign words are strange in conversation, stranger still in writing, and strangest of all in print. What will posterity say?", then his contemporary Vasily Trediakovsky, by contrast, found borrowings interesting and endowed them with

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It turns out that the real name of the writer and playwright Ludmila Petrushevskaya is Dolores

Ludmila Stefanovna relates that children bullied her over this name, and at the age of 15 she asked her mother to change it. She had always called herself Lyusya, and so she became Ludmila. Given the truly fantastic biography of this living Russian classic, I have no difficulty in believing

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Incidentally, one fact is often left out of the account: the younger sister of Lilya Brik (1891-1978) was another remarkable woman of the twentieth century, the writer Elsa Triolet (1896-1970), wife of Louis Aragon

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev in His Youth

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Pigeon and duck recipes in “The Mother’s Book” by the abolitionist Lydia Maria Child

The nineteenth-century American abolitionist and writer Lydia Maria Child, in her book "The Mother's Book" of advice on thrifty housekeeping for those of modest means, gives a veeeery strange recipe for cooking a pigeon. The vegetables she bids one boil for an hour at the

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At a meeting of the members of the writers' housing cooperative, engaged in building a five-storey residential House of Soviet Writers and adding storeys to two neighbouring houses in Nashchokin Lane and a house in Kamergersky Lane (Proyezd MKhAT), Mikhai

At a meeting of the members of the writers' housing cooperative, engaged in building a five-storey residential House of Soviet Writers and adding storeys to two neighbouring houses in Nashchokin Lane and a house in Kamergersky Lane (Proyezd MKhAT), Mikhail Bulgakov expressed surprise that a certain Comrade B-

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Valery Tishkov on the title Father of the Fatherland granted to Peter the Great in 1721

"..Notable in this respect is the act of 1721 that bestowed on Peter I the title of Emperor of All Russia. The members of the Senate and the Holy Synod asked the sovereign to take upon himself the title "Father of the Fatherland", since he had done