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Sergey Semyonovich Uvarov, who published works on archaeology and ancient Greek literature and rose to be President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, was an exceedingly contradictory man. Who expects a scholar and thinker to be capable of foul deeds, spite, thieving and petty pilfering? Yet Solovyov recalls that there
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A little girl in boots is weeping: The poor mite has lost her mother! Enough of tears and sobbing, We must go and find her mother. Literal translation Do you know whose verses these are? Those of Elena Ulyeva, the most frequently published author in Russia after Korney Chukovsky, and
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"You do not wander, you do not trouble yourself with change of place. Such restlessness is the sign of a sick soul. I think the first proof of a tranquil mind is the ability to live settled and to remain with oneself. But consider: is not the reading of
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Having travelled across almost the whole of Russia in recent years, I set foot on the soil of Boldino, to my own surprise, only this winter. And if we pass over a lengthy description of the protected places of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, where the silence laughs handsomely at the
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Be kinder than is customary, for everyone has a war, battles and losses of their own. Live simply, love generously, attend closely to the needs of another, speak gently... And leave the rest to the Lord. It is love, and not faith, nor dogma, nor mysticism, nor asceticism, nor fasting,
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In the hearts of men I have noticed a chill, No small one; of loving ardour I have long seen none among the Berendeys. The service of beauty has vanished from them; In the young I do not see glances Moistened with bewitching passion; I do not see pensive maidens,
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Ambrose Bierce
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André Maurois
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“I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” J. R. R. Tolkien
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A reminder to those planning to spend money or sell their eyes! Today sees the opening of the Katalog contemporary art fair at the Sytin printing house on Pyatnitskaya, and of the Non/fiction fair of intellectual literature at the Gostiny Dvor. The main thing is not to rush, not
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An interesting observation: Socrates, like Plato, is a baptismal Orthodox name found in the calendar of saints. Socrates appears in the church calendar three times: the Hieromartyr Presbyter Socrates of Ancyra, the Martyr Socrates of Perga in Pamphylia, and the Venerable Martyr Socrates of Tiberiopolis. Plato features in the Orthodox