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Nekrasov in later life reconsidered his harsh verses about his father, the landowner Alexey Sergeyevich
Nekrasov's biography, and the biographical motifs in his work, are a tricky matter. He often and sharply criticised, abused and ridiculed his father. Though, if one looks into it, his father, the impoverished landowner Alexey Sergeyevich, was not such a dreadful man after all, but merely an average
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Peasants of Saint Petersburg Governorate in a Two-Wheeled Cart in the 1860s
Peasants of Saint Petersburg Governorate in a two-wheeled cart in the 1860s. One of the oldest photographs of the Russian countryside, unfortunately by an unknown author
Books · Moscow · Mores · People
Nekrasov on his lines about bread from slave labour and the ancestral estate he bought
"The bread of fields tilled by slaves does me no good..." Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov Nekrasov wrote these lines when he was quite young, at 33, while living at a dacha in Petrovsky Park near Moscow together with Botkin. Shortly before his death the poet would recall this verse
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Leo Tolstoy with his grandchildren Vanya and Tanya Tolstoy outside the house at Yasnaya Polyana in 1908
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Palm Saturday on Red Square in 1896
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Boris and Naina Yeltsin at a 8 March celebration in Sverdlovsk in the late 1970s
Boris Yeltsin, First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU, with his wife Naina Yeltsina at the 8 March celebrations. Approximately 1977–1980, the city of Sverdlovsk
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"High-Rise Building" cake, made for 8 March 1954 by the architect-draughtsmen designing the "Stalin skyscrapers"
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A performance by a circle of physical culturists in honour of the celebration of 8 March in the city of Omsk in 1935
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8 March as the result of women's struggle for the right to vote, study and work
8 March is not a day of flowers, spring and tenderness, nor a holiday born of a cloud of face powder and marketing ploys. Behind it stand decades of struggle for what today seems self-evident: the right of women to study, to work, to vote, to dispose of themselves.
Mores · Society · Humour
Merkel and Costa at the Matthiae-Mahl dinner in Hamburg on European sovereignty
Matthiae-Mahl. The oldest dinner in the world, which nobody has dared to cancel The tradition dates from 1356: every year at the end of February the Hamburg city senate invites guests to a meal. 3,425 glasses, 3,400 pieces of silver cutlery that have been polished for several
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At Least Come Out of the Water to Eat! Look, You've Gone Quite Blue
At least come out of the water to eat! Look, you've gone quite blue - the deafening cries of the public, to the accompaniment of which Salvador Dalí took his rest in Venice