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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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Children having a snowball fight near Changgyeonggung Palace in Seoul in 1956

Two patinated bronze figures: a cameraman with a camera on a tripod and a photographer with a camera. Behind them, a stone-clad building with an LED board showing stock indexes.

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Bronze sculptures of a cameraman and a photographer outside a news agency building

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The Zhiguli Hills on the Volga in the 1880s and 1890s

An elderly white-haired woman in a lilac cardigan talks on a white dial telephone beside a wooden secretaire.

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Soviet ATS-1 special communications telephone in the private apartments of Elizabeth II

The Soviet AToS-1 special communications set, otherwise known as the "vertushka", in the private apartments of Elizabeth II. The cryptographic information-protection equipment is, in all likelihood, built into the walnut secretaire

A round curved mirror on a pale wall distorts the reflected gallery: hanging glass elements, framed works, silhouettes of visitors and the photographer.

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Concave round mirror on a gallery wall

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I don't know about you, but to me this 1967 photograph, showing the "book" towers going up on Novy Arbat, taken from the Church of the Saviour on Spasopeskovskaya Square, is a very sad sight

I don't know about you, but to me this 1967 photograph, showing the "book" towers going up on Novy Arbat, taken from the Church of the Saviour on Spasopeskovskaya Square, is a very sad sight. They have no business being here; they ought to have been

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Grand Duchess Anastasia in a special basket saddle during an outing at Kuntsevo

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Actor Alexander Mizev shares behind-the-scenes photographs from the set of the series based on The Captain's Daughter, directed by Dmitry Litvinenko

Black-and-white photo of a bearded, dark-haired man in a jacket beside a smiling young woman holding a rose. An older man in glasses is visible behind them.

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Bearded man and young woman holding a rose in a black-and-white photograph

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