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J. R. R. Tolkien with his three-year-old son Christopher in a photograph from 1928
Professor J. R. R. Tolkien and his three-year-old son Christopher, 1928
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Queen Camilla received an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of London
Queen Camilla of England has become a Doctor of Letters of the University of London. The doctoral robe was placed on her shoulders by the Princess Royal, Anne. True, Camilla is patron of several organisations that maintain and promote literacy, visits schools, libraries and businesses to popularise these programmes, is
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"For most people the appearance of books matters more than the beauties of science
"For most people the appearance of books matters more than the beauties of science. Some go so far as to extol and praise the bookbinders more than the authors. They boast that, thanks to their efforts, this craft has attained in the Academy the greatest perfection, while on the
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Camilla Gray's 1962 book on the Russian avant-garde published in Russian translation
V–A–C Press has published a translation of the monograph "The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863–1922" by the British scholar and researcher of the Russian avant-garde Camilla Gray. The book is one of the first Western studies of the Russian avant-garde and has become
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"Nine-tenths of writers will die off, nobody will remember them, such is their specific (weight)
"Nine-tenths of writers will die off, nobody will remember them, such is their specific (weight). Whereas I shall shine through the ages. You have seen to it that Gorky wants for nothing, and Tolstoy receives 36,000 roubles a month. Why am I not provided for in the
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Splendid household furnishings, dress, carriages, the luxury of the table: all this makes a man neither great nor worthy of respect, for none of it forms any part of him, but lies outside him and has no kinship with him whatever
The East · Books · Observations
Tolstoy’s Service in the Caucasus and Sevastopol, “The Cossacks” and “Sevastopol Sketches”
Have you read "The Cossacks"? Prince Olenin, disillusioned with life and sunk in complete moral decline, goes straight off to the active army in the hope of distracting himself amid new circumstances and places. He hopes that closeness to nature and to the simple folk will help him
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It's Professor Dowell's Head!
It's Professor Dowell's head! A brilliant prop from Leonid Menaker's film, based on the novel by Alexander Belyaev. The living laboratory is on display on the staircase of the main building of Lenfilm
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The Evangelist Luke with his symbol, the Eagle, and the motto More volans aquile verbo petit astra Iohannes, in a tenth-century book
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Exhibition of Vera Yermolayeva's works at Galeev Gallery until 13 November
The final week of the remarkable exhibition "Faith in Yermolayeva" is under way at Galeev Gallery. It is not merely a weighty event from the curatorial point of view, but also an important account of Vera Yermolayeva (1893-1937), whose name, though little known, has become one of
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Maria Bashkirtseva’s 1876 diary entry on how her father and others treat her
I can only admire myself: people yield to me, flatter me and, what is more important, love me. Father, who at first wished to cast me down from the throne, has now almost fully understood why I am shown royal honours, and, despite a certain hardness of character, shows them
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Marina Tsvetaeva on France and a photograph of the poet in Paris
In some respects of history we (France and Russia) coincide; more than that: there are sides of history that we feel upon our own sides. Marina Tsvetaeva on France. In the photograph: Tsvetaeva in Paris