Museum panel with a black-and-white halftone portrait of a bearded man, captioned "Latsis Martyn Ivanovich", with a quotation in Russian. Red threads are stretched across the display.

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Museum panel with a portrait of Martyn Latsis and a quotation on class origin

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The Stable Church, where Pushkin was given his funeral service

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The pilgrim women Repin painted in 1878 reached the canvas "Religious Procession in Kursk Province" by 1883 almost unchanged

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Chukovsky's tiny library building, today No. 266, holds 14,000 books and is open every day except Monday

Two-storey house with yellow plaster below and dark wooden siding above, grilles on the windows and an open loggia under the roof. A pine trunk and branches against the sky on the right.

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Facade of a wooden dacha with an attic and open loggia among pines

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A gift from Anastasia Tsvetaeva, younger sister of Marina Tsvetaeva, to the readers of Chukovsky's library: Korney Ivanovich asked every writer who came to visit him to bring a book of their own as a present for the library

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The Drawing Room in Korney Chukovsky's Dacha at Peredelkino

Stone facade with rusticated masonry, a round rose window, Latin inscriptions and a portal reading Madonna delle Grazie. Carved wooden doors stand at the entrance.

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Facade of the Church of Madonna delle Grazie with rustication and rose window

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Oskar Kokoschka, Theseus and Antiope

Oskar Kokoschka, Theseus and Antiope. Or the old guard of society ladies against the Instagrammers

A room with a glass roof and walls clad in blue-and-white pictorial tiles. A brick chimney, carpet-upholstered benches and the sea beyond the windows are visible.

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Glass-roofed room with blue-and-white tiles and a sea view

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The second floor is arranged in the Renaissance spirit

The second floor is arranged in the Renaissance spirit. There is an enormous, solemn study with an adjoining tiny library, where Hugo housed the library he had rescued in exile, and a bedroom with carpets and tapestries of every conceivable colour. And a symbolic corridor leading upwards, ending in a

Portrait of a small girl in a black coat with a fur collar and a large feathered hat, standing on a path in a landscape.

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Victoria at age four and the black clothing she wore from 1861 until 1901

Four-year-old little Victoria, the future Queen of Great Britain, in black. Victoria spent nearly half her life in black, from the death of Prince Albert in 1861 to the end of her days in 1901