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President of Finland Tarja Halonen in the historical Eura dress at the annual Independence Day reception in 2001

President of Finland Tarja Halonen in the historical Eura dress at the annual Independence Day reception in 2001. The dress is an exact reconstruction of the attire of a Viking Age woman, found in a Viking burial at Eura in western Finland. Just imagine loving your country and your people

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The Russo-Italian artist Paolo Troubetzkoy, Pavel Petrovich, not only created touching sculptures of animals, but was also a committed vegetarian

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Italian Cuisine Is Now a UNESCO World Heritage Item!

My compliments

Aristocracy · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Mores

Dmitry Sheremetev's guardians refused to rent the House of Solitude at Kuskovo to actress Sandunova

With the death of Count Nikolai Petrovich Sheremetev, Dmitry Nikolayevich, his seven-year-old son by the former serf actress Praskovya Gorbunova-Zhemchugova, who died soon after the birth, was left a complete orphan. The boy's upbringing was taken on by the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, while as

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Marquise de Montespan as Judith in Gabriel Revel's painting of 1688

The Marquise de Montespan as Judith, Thriftily Holding the Severed Head of Holofernes. Once more, then: the Marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV and mother of seven of his children, in the guise of the Old Testament heroine Judith, the young widow who saved besieged Judea by cutting off

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Repost this, so that all may go well for the little fellow

Makovsky's painting of 1872 is called "Secretly from His Wife"

Sepia photograph of a young man in boots seated on wooden porch steps, four women above him, two dogs lying on the steps and the ground, and a bicycle at right.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff with four women on the steps of the Krasnenkoye estate in 1899

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff with ladies on the steps of the manor house at the Krasnenkoye estate, Voronezh Governorate, in 1899. Posing with Rachmaninoff are two charming dogs, together with Natalya Alexandrovna Satina, Yelena Yulyevna Kreutzer, Natalia Nikolayevna Lanting and Madame Mayevskaya.