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Among the Moscow state gymnasia, the Fourth stood in a class of its own. It was a classical school of the highest rank, with Latin and Greek, and with the right of direct entry to Moscow University. Its teachers were men of uncommon gifts: the physicist Kraevich, whose textbook outlived
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A Cambridge lecturer on the childhood of Ivan the Terrible. As the saying goes, this is as far as your education has taken you Fortunately, in this case the British scholar is not, after all, a professional historian, nor indeed a scholar at all, but merely gives lectures in adult
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Yot, Yery, the Soft Sign and the Hard Sign are stuck up a tree. From the Russian Alphabet in Painted Pictures on Canvas. Saint Petersburg: Published by M. O. Wolf.
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Before that, after the Revolution, the city museum had existed here for a short time; it was closed in 1925, and until 1927 the same premises also housed the Higher Courses of Municipal Economy. The Palace continued to operate even in the hard years of the Siege: clubs were open,
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Viktor Akhlomov
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The first precedents date from the end of 2025, when a member of staff at Yaroslavl Pedagogical University was fined 20,000 roubles for references to such educational organisations in a scholarly publication. At the beginning of 2026 a female employee of the Yaroslavl State Theatre Institute received a similar
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Nuns who teach at the Saint Joseph de Saint-Vallier girls' school in Quebec skate against the backdrop of the Laurentian foothills. 1967. Photo by John Lanois
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The answer, on a Dutch engraving of the early seventeenth century: Winged, like a fallen angel, and decked out in an academic gown, he is goaded on by curiosity, while flattery holds up to him an ornate mirror adorned with feathers, that he may contemplate himself. And not a single
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Children with plastic bags on their heads play at being snowballs. This put me in mind of Shrovetide at my own kindergarten, and the chief impression it left: a strange bewilderment that nobody could properly explain what sort of holiday it was, or why someone had to be burned. I