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Mikhail Savitsky's painting “Khleby”, created in 1968
Loaves. Mikhail Savitsky, 1968
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Daniel Radcliffe at the Bulgakov Museum
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The Restoration of the Painted Drum of the Dome of Saint Isaac's Cathedral, 1954 to 1963
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Alas, "The Art of Trolling" Turned Out to Be a Book About Fishing from a Moving Boat
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A restorer at work in the Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve in 1984
A restorer at work in the Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve in 1984. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich
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Dostoevsky took this New Testament with him to penal servitude in Siberia
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The Cat Has Read the News and Decided, for the Present, to Make No Sudden Movements
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Rhetorical Questions Require No Answer
NB! · Observations · Society · Paris
Last night in Paris, at a rally on the Place de la République condemning the seizure of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, an American flag was burned
Last night in Paris, at a rally on the Place de la République condemning the seizure of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, an American flag was burned. Were it not for the Monument to the Republic by the Morice brothers in the background, one might think the party was taking
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Dance, a drawing by Georges Barbier, 1914
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Four photographs of a glowing crescent in Arctic landscapes
NB! · Archive · Geography · Books · Society · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography
Population of the Russian Empire in the 1897 Census in Rubakin's Book of 1912
A statistical survey of the composition of the population of the Russian Empire on the basis of the 1897 census, with a hand-drawn diagram of national composition from the book "Russia in Figures. The Country. The People. The Estates. The Classes" by Nikolai Alexandrovich Rubakin, published in