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The British Catholic journalist, writer, commentator and biographer of Pope Francis, Austen Ivereigh, gives an exhaustive account of Cardinal Bergoglio's position as of 2010 on same-sex marriage and civil unions, which in…

File on Telegram The British Catholic journalist, writer, commentator and biographer of Pope Francis, Austen Ivereigh, gives an exhaustive account of Cardinal Bergoglio's position as of 2010 on same-sex marriage and civil unions, which are not, in fact, one and the same, in his 2014 book The

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Pasted-over pages in books at the Akhmatova Museum and her poems about Stalin

In the Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House there are poetry collections with pages pasted shut. It is reported that Akhmatova herself pasted these pages shut. What is on them? Akhmatova's poems about Stalin. It is believed that Anna Andreyevna was compelled to write them in order to

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The life of this hero of the 17th and 18th centuries can be read about in Marcus Rediker's book "The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist"

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Tatyana Savina on Griboyedov, Secret Societies and “Woe from Wit”

Some very interesting reflections on Griboyedov and secret societies: was he a Decembrist, and what can be said of his attitude to the clash between old and new, as reflected in "Woe from Wit"? They come from a series of talks by Tatyana Savina on Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov,

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I should never have thought that Elizabeth Bowen, author of naive novels about ingénues and the loss of illusions in the heartless, cruel world of the 1930s, could be so popular among the wa

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There are quite a few oddities in issue No. 9 of 1830 of Delvig's "Literary Gazette"

There are quite a few oddities in issue No. 9 of 1830 of Delvig's "Literary Gazette". Take, for example, the rhyme in Pushkin's epistle to Yazykov of 1824: "Since time immemorial a sweet bond Unites poets with one another: They are priests of

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Nureyev’s Autobiography and “Women of Japan” in Truffaut’s “Bed and Board”

Can a couple be happy if she is reading Nureyev's autobiography and he is reading "Women of Japan"? To find a reading person at all is already happiness, of course. And then, if we turn to the plot of "Bed and Board" from François

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Virginia Woolf and her work “A Room of One's Own”

Perhaps the history of men's struggle against women's emancipation is more interesting than the story of emancipation itself. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

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Probably the first painted image of Joyce's "Ulysses", then banned in the United States: Paul Cadmus's "Jerry"

Paul Cadmus's painting "Jerry" is probably the first painted image of Joyce's "Ulysses", which was at that time banned in the United States. The portrait of the artist Jared French (1905-1988), by his lover Paul Cadmus (1904-1999), was painted during

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since we have come to speak of Solzhenitsyn, here are some lines about him, taken down from the words of Vsevolod Ivanov by his friend Anna Saed-Shakh and set out in a short tale of the history of Peredelkino

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Solzhenitsyn's 1970 Nobel Prize and two Time covers before he received it

On 8 October 1970 Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Alexandr Isayevich would receive the prize itself only in December 1974, after his expulsion from the Soviet Union. It is

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While in Russia they timidly wind down discussion of moving the long-suffering body of Lenin from Red Square, and all but ignore the dismantling of the necropolis at Novodevichy Convent, in France the subject of famous graves is at the centre of attention

A petition is being put to the President for re-interment in the national Pantheon; it has already been signed by 10 former ministers of culture and various eminent figures of the intelligentsia. The subject is two notable nineteenth-century poets, Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. The romance of Rimbaud