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The Funeral of Anna Akhmatova, 10 March 1966

The funeral of Anna Akhmatova, 10 March 1966. Second from the left is Yevgeny Rein, beside him Arseny Tarkovsky. At the coffin is Alexey Panteleyev, and behind him Joseph Brodsky.

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A young poetess's prayer for illness and loss, fulfilled in her own life

In 1915 Anna Akhmatova wrote this "Prayer":. Give me the bitter years of illness, Breathlessness, sleeplessness, fever, Take away both my child and my friend, And the mysterious gift of song - Thus I pray at Your liturgy, After so many wearisome days, That the cloud over dark Russia

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Today a monument to Alexander Pushkin was unveiled in the grounds of the Holy Trinity Church on the Left Bank of the Seine, in Paris's 7th arrondissement

Today a monument to Alexander Pushkin was solemnly unveiled in the grounds of the Holy Trinity Church on the Left Bank of the Seine, in Paris's 7th arrondissement. Among those present was a direct descendant of the poet in the male line, Alexander Alexandrovich Pushkin, together with his

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Do Not Fear Happiness, It Does Not Exist

Michel Houellebecq

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Longing is the torment of the nearness of the distant

Martin Heidegger

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The joke about Cheburashka's Jewish origin predates the remarks of a State Duma deputy

Is this the Mandela effect already, or just universal forgetfulness? How is one to explain why everyone is discussing Cheburashka's Jewish nationality, and, above all, discussing it as the original invention of a State Duma deputy? Yet the man merely voiced an old joke from LiveJournal that everyone

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New York's odious mayor and his wife have already managed to publish a children's book about themselves

New York's odious mayor and his wife have already managed to publish a children's book about themselves. How sweet they are, how sugary and cartoonish. They tell the story of their wedding in the subway. On the one hand, they go on constructing the myth of

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Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1915 verses on war, Moscow and the poet of Bolshaya Presnya

Me and Napoleon. I live on Bolshaya Presnya, 36, 24. A quiet little spot. Peaceful. Well? What is it to me, one would think, that somewhere in the storm-world they have gone and invented a war? Night has come. A fine one. Ingratiating. And why do some of the

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Pushkin’s poem “The Cart of Life” on the ages of man and the passage of time

The Cart of Life. So it turns out Pushkin is writing about us, lads. Though at times its burden is heavy, The cart is light as it goes; The reckless driver, grey-haired Time, Drives on, and will not climb down from the box. In the morning we get into

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Success may fall to a plebeian or a dullard; but to tame the terrors of mortal life and to master misfortune is the lot of a great man. Seneca

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When I receive the monthly reports on the state of my armies and my navy, which fill twenty fat volumes, reading them gives me more pleasure than a young lady derives from reading novels

Napoleon, 1806

Black-and-white photograph of a six-armed snowflake with intricate branching patterns against a dark background.

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Ryunosuke Akutagawa on the swift passage of time and the year gone by

Time and tide wait for no man. A year has flown by like a snowflake falling into a river: white for a moment, and then gone for ever. Ryunosuke Akutagawa