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Yesterday we read the verse of Apollon Korinfsky; today let us see what he looked like. The photograph, from 1914, shows Apollon Korinfsky with his family on holiday. Apollon Apollonovich Korinfsky was born in 1868 in Simbirsk and died in 1937 in Tver, in exile, by then quite an elderly
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In days of old the hero Svyatogor, Sensing in himself a presumptuous strength, In an ill hour resolved with his hand To lift up and overturn the universe. And on his swift steed He rode out on a considerable journey, Riding to seek the pull of the earth, He sees
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On 3 June 1929 the philosopher Alexei Losev and his wife Valentina were secretly tonsured as monastics by the Athonite elder Archimandrite David, taking the names Andronik and Athanasia. It was a monastic tonsure "in the world", that is, without withdrawal to a monastery. The person goes on
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From 20 May 2026, owners of Kindle e-readers released in 2012 and earlier will lose access to the Amazon store. The devices will no longer be able to buy, borrow or download new books through the Kindle Store. The restriction affects every model from the very first Kindle of
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It all comes down to thoughts. Thought is the beginning of everything. And thoughts can be controlled. And so the chief business of self-improvement is to work on one's thoughts Leo Tolstoy
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Christ is Risen, brothers and sisters! Truly He is Risen! Rejoice and sing, my soul, Heiress of the heavens: Christ is risen, Your Saviour is truly risen! Literal translation Yes! Hell has grown faint before the Mighty One: From the fetters of the tomb, From the night of death, God
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Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do. As Zinaida Gippius wrote: Our grandfathers' impossible dream, The sacrifice of our heroes in their prison cells, Our prayer on timid lips, Our hope and our sigh: The Constituent Assembly, What have we done with it...? Literal translation
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And joy suddenly stirred in his soul, and he even stopped for a minute to catch his breath. The past, he thought, is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another. And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends
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From 2026 all universities in South Korea will be obliged to take records of school bullying into account at admission. Previously this was voluntary; now it is compulsory: an applicant with a record of violence in his school file has his score reduced or is simply turned away. In 2025
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You lot might want to check that. Garage did not publish one and a half million books, however tempting it is to dazzle with handsome figures. What it did was print one and a half million copies of some fixed number of titles, I don't know, perhaps 100
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Has anyone seen this book in their library? It was written by Arkady Vasilyev. A comedy film was made from the story, too. You know the plot: swindlers of every stripe, traders, restaurateurs, butchers, railway station employees and various other rogues found a joint-stock partnership, a sort of secret
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Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre to Stage Golden Mask-Nominated "Wuthering Heights" Happily, the ballet is based on Emily Brontë's novel itself, and not on yet another lewd reimagining of one of the darkest and most passionate stories in English literature, as was the case with