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Depiction of a tiger by an unknown South Asian artist of the early 19th century
The Sad Tiger. Unknown South Asian artist, 1815 to the 1820s.
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Toy camel on wheels made in Morocco for the French market in the early twentieth century
A toy camel on wheels from Morocco, early twentieth century. Made for the French market. A magnificent camel!
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A Reminder of a More Substantial Suspect than Napoleon in the Case of the Damaged Great Sphinx
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The Great Sphinx lost its nose long before Napoleon, not to a cannon shot
The second great myth about Napoleon, after his short stature, is the story that on Napoleon's orders the Great Sphinx was shot in the face with a cannon and had its nose knocked off. The legend is easily refuted by images of the Sphinx made before Bonaparte was
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On 7 July 1828 the liberation of Greece began
On 7 July 1828 the liberation of Greece began. On that day Russia, Pnglia and France signed a protocol on sending a French expeditionary corps under the command of Nicolas Joseph Maison to the Peloponnese, in order to drive out the troops of Ibrahim
NB! · The East · Geography · Maps
The frontiers of Russia (the Fergana Region), China (Kashgaria) and the British possessions (Dardistan) met on a short stretch between the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram range
The frontiers of Russia (the Fergana Region), China (Kashgaria) and the British possessions (Dardistan) met on a short stretch between the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram range. Map of 1909
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A Kirghiz convict painted by Vasily Perov in 1873 looks exactly like Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow
A Kirghiz convict painted by Vasily Perov in 1873 looks exactly like Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow. Collection of the Russian Museum
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Erika Fatland writes that in Uzbekistan the very first English-speaking person she met told her that Alexander the Great was an Uzbek
Erika Fatland writes that in Uzbekistan the very first English-speaking person she met told her that Alexander the Great was an Uzbek. I am immediately reminded of the tale that the Ark came to rest somewhere in the environs of the Kazakh city of Taraz, and, of course, of
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Guy Ritchie's much-discussed film about an American military operation in Afghanistan, released in Russian cinemas as "The Translator", is in the original still called The Covenant, which means "agreement, compact, testament"
Guy Ritchie's much-discussed film about an American military operation in Afghanistan, released in Russian cinemas as "The Translator", is in the original still called The Covenant, which means "agreement, compact, testament". So the point of the film is not, after all, the mere
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Mamin-Sibiryak's Antique Chinese Hookah
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The 1914 Tokyo staging of “Resurrection” and the Katyusha craze in Japan
Speaking of the fashion for foreign cultural phenomena in Japan, one cannot fail to recall the quite peculiar feeling the Japanese have for Leo Tolstoy's novel "Resurrection" The Japanese writer Shimamura Hogetsu staged "Resurrection" at the Art Theatre in Tokyo in 1914. In the
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The infant Mstislav Rostropovich in a cello case, Baku, 1927
Mstislav Rostropovich in a cello case. With his little left hand he touches the strings. Baku, 1927 His father, Leopold Rostropovich (1892-1942), was a cellist, conductor and teacher, and moved to Baku to teach. He would later become a professor at the Azerbaijan Conservatoire