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ORA, LEGE, LEGE, LEGE, RELEGE, LABORA ET INVENIES

Pray, read, read, read, read again, labour, and you shall discover something new

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Curious Details of Bishop Tikhon's Struggle Against Seminarians Who Were Vagrants, Pranksters and Prone to the Intemperance of a Vile, Suspicious and Drunken Passion in the 1770s

For example, it was devised to select the most honest pupils as fiscals, that is, overseers and informers, who would watch which of their schoolfellows frequented the drinking shops: «Let there be appointed from among the most honest pupils fiscals, that they might watch and report faithfully to the teachers

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📌 This building housed the theological seminary where, in 1788, the eminent statesman and jurist Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky studied

📌 Also in this building: in 1767 a prison was opened for "raving convicts". From 1829 most of its prisoners were clergy and sectarians. Among the inmates were the soothsayer monk Avel, who foretold the fate of the Romanov dynasty; the Old Believer hierarchs Arkady, Alimpy, Konon and Gennady;

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School uniform conforming to the new GOST, developed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade together with the Ministry of Education, looks like clothing from Soviet cinema of the 1950s

School uniform conforming to the new GOST, developed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade together with the Ministry of Education, looks like clothing from Soviet cinema of the 1950s. Indeed, the burgundy suit with skirt and jacket prescribed for girls, complemented by a lace tie-cum-jabot, is more

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Borges at the Sorbonne in 1978

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From 3 September, amendments to the Rosstandart order on the GOST for school uniform come into force

From 3 September, amendments to the Rosstandart order on the GOST for school uniform come into force. The relevant ministry, however, points out that "schools have the right to set their own requirements for the appearance, colour, cut and insignia of the uniform, taking into account the opinion of

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Michèle Laroque, a car accident at 19 and her path to acting through the conservatoire

Michèle Laroque, I think everyone will remember this actress: at 19 she was in a car crash, and, with multiple fractures, the girl, who had loved sport and dancing, found herself bedridden for a long time. She was able to walk again only after two years. At that time the

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The Origin of the Russian Language:

Proto-Indo-Germanic, Slavo-Germanic, Balto-Slavic, primitive Slavic, South-Eastern Slavic, Russian

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Saint Petersburg's Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory plans to organise tours of its renovated historic building once the repairs are complete

The main works are due to be finished by December, but some classes may resume as early as September. Particular attention has been paid to preserving the historic appearance of the building while equipping it with modern facilities. The acoustics of the Rubinstein Great Hall have been improved, and the

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Euler diagrams showing which identical letters are shared by the Greek, Latin and Cyrillic alphabets

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Karion Istomin's illustrated Primer, published at the Print Yard in 1694

Presidential adviser Yelena Yampolskaya proposes abandoning the "Azbuka" and calling it the "Bukvar" Well then, I propose that we return to the ancient Primer of Karion Istomin, hieromonk of the Chudov Monastery in Moscow, writer and court poet, who produced the first illustrated Russian alphabet book.

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A 19-year-old composer's symphony, premiered in May 1926, brought him worldwide fame

Dmitry Shostakovich's First Symphony, which brought him worldwide fame, was written as a graduation project. The first performance took place in May 1926 and caused a sensation; before long the symphony was being played across the country and abroad, in Berlin, Philadelphia and New York. Thus the 19-