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Renoir Was Young Once Too, and We Have Frédéric Bazille to Thank for the Reminder
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I Looked at Dolly Parton's Wedding Photo and Realised That Our Dolly Is Nadezhda Kadysheva
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A Russian Proverb
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Former Hotel du Nord in Odessa, where Pushkin stayed in the summer of 1823
The house in Odessa where Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin lived. The Hotel du Nord stood here, and Pushkin stayed in it for a month in the summer of 1823. The street was then called Italianskaya; in 1880 it was renamed Pushkinskaya. In 1959 a Literary Memorial Museum was opened here
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Vladimir Etush Street appears in Moscow between Lobachevsky and Vasily Lanovoy Streets
A street named after Vladimir Etush has appeared in Moscow. It runs from Lobachevsky Street to Vasily Lanovoy Street
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Newspaper clipping from Moscow, Oct. 4: facts and figures on the Soviet satellite
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The Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos in the Red Salon of his Paris residence, the Hôtel de Chanaleilles, beneath the Pietà (c. 1581) by Doménikos Theotokópoulos, El Greco, one of the principal treasures of his own collection
The Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos in the Red Salon of his Paris residence, the Hôtel de Chanaleilles, beneath the Pietà (c. 1581) by Doménikos Theotokópoulos, El Greco, one of the principal treasures of his own collection
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Steel helmet with gold inlay, turquoise and Arabic inscription
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Portrait of Vladimir Putin by George W. Bush
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At Christie's, Michelangelo's study for the foot of a Sibyl sold for $27.2 million
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