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Having breakfast at my beloved KM20 and delighting that a copy of unloved Prince Harry's book was a gift 🥰🥰 And wishing everyone a good morning 🌞 I set about reading at once, and so far these are not the worst memoirs I have come across
Not without oddities, though. On the very first page I opened there turned up an original passage in which Harry supposes that his DNA holds a rudimentary memory of the terrorist attack of 1979 in which Lord Mountbatten, his great-great-uncle, was killed
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In the Life of Andrew the Fool for Christ, known in Slavonic since the eleventh century
In the Life of Andrew the Fool for Christ, known in Slavonic since the 11th century and set in Byzantium in the 10th, we find these words: "In the last days the Lord God shall raise up a tsar from poverty.. he shall raise up the churches of the
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Mood: Virginia Woolf in a Portrait by Bett Norris
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Critic Belinsky's assessment of Koltsov's poetry
He possesses a talent not great, but genuine; a gift of creation neither deep nor strong, but real and unforced. Belinsky on the poetry of Koltsov. Praise of a sort, yet somehow rather insulting
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Valentin Berestov's poem about what Pushkin did not know
Pushkin Studies. What was there that great Pushkin never knew? He never knew a single chastushka, Never saw a single matryoshka In her lacquered little dress. The birch as the symbol of Rus' He never called, God forbid. In his day it was not suited To that role. It
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After the success of the novel Little Lord Fauntleroy in the 1880s, the outfit of beret, dark jacket, knee-length breeches, coloured silk sash and lace-and-bow shirt became almost obligatory in a boy's wardrobe on both…
After the success of the novel Little Lord Fauntleroy in the 1880s, the outfit of beret, dark jacket, knee-length breeches, coloured silk sash and lace-and-bow shirt became almost obligatory in a boy's wardrobe on both sides of the Atlantic. Suddenly English, French, American and even
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After the Fall into the Abyss of Khazad-dûm, Gandalf the Grey Is Indeed No Longer the Same
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Five Russian titles of a novel about an underwater voyage, published between 1870 and 1956
George Sand suggested the idea of the novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" to Jules Verne, proposing in a letter of 1865 that he write a book about a voyage across the ocean in a submarine. In Russian translation the novel appeared under various titles: Eighty Thousand
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Who decides whether a writer is justly forgotten, with Tatishchev and Kheraskov as examples
When a writer is said to be unjustly forgotten, it is worth asking: how is it determined whether a person has been forgotten deservedly or not? Is there some committee that establishes this? Or is it estimated by eye? Tatishchev, for instance, is unjustly forgotten, whereas Kheraskov is quite deservedly
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In the 1992 American action film with Harrison Ford, "Patriot Games", about the investigation of an Irish terrorist group plotting an attempt on members of the royal family, the chief villains turn out to be members of…
In the 1992 American action film with Harrison Ford, "Patriot Games", about the investigation of an Irish terrorist group plotting an attempt on members of the royal family, the chief villains turn out to be members of a society of rare-book collectors, a beautiful agent who deals
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In 1874 Julia Margaret Cameron, one of the most celebrated women photographers and portraitists of the nineteenth century, created a series of allegorical portraits of the heroes of the Arthurian legends to illustrate a collection of poems on the legends
In 1874 Julia Margaret Cameron, one of the most celebrated women photographers and portraitists of the nineteenth century, created a series of allegorical portraits of the heroes of the Arthurian legends to illustrate "Idylls of the King", a collection of poems on the legends of King Arthur by