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Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, in retirement, has celebrated her 85th birthday. It is touching that the festive table was decorated in the manner of Easter. And it is very sad to think that we are witnesses to the last Christian rulers of Europe; one wants to go on believing
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Ivan the Terrible receives the Danish ambassadors together with his eldest son. Before the audience, the bailiffs strictly forbade the ambassadors to recite the titles of their king ahead of the titles of the Prince of Moscow, reminding them that envoys who had once broken this rule had been expelled
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It probably could indeed have happened, but the man drinking tea was not Gagarin at all. It was Captain-Lieutenant Vetoshkin, who fished out a piece of lemon with his fingers and ate the flesh, leaving the rind. And what, pray, is so remarkable about that? I eat my lemon
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Sire, give freedom to the Russian word. Our intellect is cramped, our thought poisons our breast for want of space, it groans in the stocks of the censorship. Give us free speech... we have something to say to the world and to our own people. < > Wash from Russia
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She wrote sensual letters to George V and Nicholas II and was a veritable celebrity of her day. It is to this woman that the Entente owes Romania's abandonment of neutrality and its entry into the First World War on the side of Russia and Britain. Queen Marie
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Émile Zola describes the château of Rambouillet, with its forest and surroundings, as a paradise to which one longs to flee from the heat of the stone corridors of Paris, in Au Bonheur des Dames ("The Ladies' Paradise"). To this day it remains one of the most
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One of the most beautiful bridges in Paris, the Pont Alexandre III, was built to celebrate the strengthening of the diplomatic alliance between France and Russia. Incredibly costly, difficult to execute and superbly decorated, the Alexander Bridge remains to this day one of the principal sights of Paris. Construction ran