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"A stout Mordvin woman in a chemise mottled at the shoulders, sleeves and hem with red wool, as though it had been inscribed in blood; her bosom weighed down with silver coins of various sizes in several rows; in her ears a ball of swan's down apiece, and

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"A stout Mordvin woman in a chemise mottled at the shoulders, sleeves and hem with red wool, as though it had been inscribed in blood; her bosom weighed down with silver coins of various sizes in several rows; in her ears a ball of swan's down apiece, and

"A stout Mordvin woman in a chemise mottled at the shoulders, sleeves and hem with red wool, as though it had been inscribed in blood; her bosom weighed down with silver coins of various sizes in several rows; in her ears a ball of swan's down apiece,

By Alexandr Radayev
"There is no power on earth more absolute than that of the sovereigns of Russia: throughout their empire their will is the only law; obedience the only morality

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"There is no power on earth more absolute than that of the sovereigns of Russia: throughout their empire their will is the only law; obedience the only morality

"There is no power on earth more absolute than that of the sovereigns of Russia: throughout their empire their will is the only law; obedience the only morality. Yet we shall see their pitiable condition, and how their power, having overstepped every limit prescribed to men, has destroyed itself

By Alexandr Radayev
In Mayakovsky Theatre's new production of Ostrovsky's "The Forest", Raisa Pavlovna Gurmyzhskaya, a widow in her early fifties, and her friend the housekeeper Ulita are at last played not by 70- or 80-year-old grannies but by young, vivid women, Anna Ardov

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In Mayakovsky Theatre's new production of Ostrovsky's "The Forest", Raisa Pavlovna Gurmyzhskaya, a widow in her early fifties, and her friend the housekeeper Ulita are at last played not by 70- or 80-year-old grannies but by young, vivid women, Anna Ardov

In Mayakovsky Theatre's new production of Ostrovsky's "The Forest", Raisa Pavlovna Gurmyzhskaya, a widow in her early fifties, and her friend the housekeeper Ulita are at last played not by 70- or 80-year-old grannies but by young, vivid women, Anna Ardova and

By Alexandr Radayev
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