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In 1949 Alexandr Alexandrovich Fadeyev, then General Secretary and Chairman of the Board of the Writers' Union, appealed to Stalin with a proposal to close the Yiddish-language almanacs and dissolve the associations of Jewish writers

In 1949 Alexandr Alexandrovich Fadeyev, then General Secretary and Chairman of the Board of the Writers' Union, appealed to Stalin with a proposal to close the Yiddish-language almanacs and dissolve the associations of Jewish writers. The letter from the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the Central Committee

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“At first we could not understand why so many reindeer were being driven across the tundra to Arkhangelsk

“At first we could not understand why so many reindeer were being driven across the tundra to Arkhangelsk. The soldiers escorting us said that military units would be organised. We still did not understand what sort of military units could be made of reindeer. Among us there were Nenets, Komi,

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Reindeer transport units of the 14th Army in the Arctic during the war

"In the first winter of the war, reindeer transport units began to be organised in all the divisions of the 14th Army. Sámi, Nenets and Komi served in them. The reindeer were often used not only for evacuating the wounded and delivering military supplies, but also for inserting scouts

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Results of a poll of 758 participants, 537 of whom answered in the negative

Are you familiar with the works of the Holy Prepuce? anonymous poll. No – 537 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 71% Not yet, but I'd like to be – 170 👍👍 22% Yes, and I am impressed – 36 ▫️ 5% Yes, but not enthused – 15 ▫️ 2% 👥 758 people voted so far.

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Virginia I do love a smoke Woolf, photographed by her friend and patroness Lady Ottoline Morrell, for many years the benefactress of the Bloomsbury Group and the lover of Bertrand Russell and Dora Carrington

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When Everyone Must Urgently Learn What a Well-Read Young Lady You Are

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Ilf and Petrov on the closed doors of Moscow circuses, theatres and cinemas

Muscovites love to lock their doors. Thousands of grand front entrances are boarded up from the inside, and hundreds of thousands of citizens creep into their flats by the back stairs. The year 1918 is long past, the very notion of a "raid on a flat" has grown

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Agnellus of Ravenna wrote biographies of bishops he knew nothing about

Agnellus of Ravenna composed biographies even of those bishops about whom he had no information whatever. In his view, men set so high by the Lord could not but have been zealous in faith, virtuous and compassionate. "And I think that I have told no lie," he said.

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V. Dal Museum of the History of Russian Literature seeks a manager for its bookshop

The Editorial and Publishing Department of the V. Dal Museum of the History of Russian Literature seeks a manager. Duties: working in the museum bookshop "Ostroukhov": advising customers, arranging books on the shelves, handling primary accounting documents. Days off: Monday and Tuesday. Experience is not required. What matters

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The Genealogy of Henry II from the Nuremberg Chronicle: An Example of Naïve Graphic Art

The genealogy of Henry II from the Nuremberg Chronicle is an example of naïve graphic art. The generations are joined by some thick, unpleasant yellow umbilical cord, and I quite understand the fellow who is about to sever it

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Sarah Bond, historian, lecturer at the University of Iowa and contributor to the American Forbes, has written a short piece on the Black classicist of the eighteenth century Francis Williams

Sarah Bond, historian, lecturer at the University of Iowa and contributor to the American Forbes, has written a short piece on the Black classicist of the eighteenth century Francis Williams. According to her, this scholar, a native of Jamaica, was known for his knowledge of mathematics and his mastery of

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The nuns' duel legend and Mademoiselle Maupin, heroine of Gautier's 1835 novel

The tale of the duelling nuns may derive from an episode in the life of the French opera singer and fencer Mademoiselle Maupin. She is said to have dressed as a nun in order to abduct her beloved from a convent, where the girl had been sent by her family&