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The letter describes how Ehrenburg was released on bail and left for Paris, whence he could not return to be served with the indictment on grounds of ill health, "being ill with acute articular rheumatism, complicated by heart disease" Although other sources tell us that at this time
Society · Paris · People
In January 1908 he was arrested for membership of an underground Bolshevik organisation. He was 17 years old! After several months in custody, the young Ehrenburg was released on bail of 500 roubles, his parents being, happily, well-to-do. And he promptly fled to France, without waiting for the
NB! · Archive · In the Press · Geography · Society · Paris
The Novy Altaysky Luch of 15 Feb 1919 carries on a single page both the flooding of the Seine and the affairs of Semirechye: famine, cattle plague, arrests of the steppe intelligentsia. The Bolsheviks, who had seemed to be calming down, have once more stepped up their terror
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A Christmas card of 1920 with a view of Paris. Today is Eiffel's birthday
Archive · Monarchies · Paris · People
“My dear Mama, on Tuesday there was a festival that I shall never forget. We made our solemn entry into Paris. As for honours, we received all the honours one could possibly imagine, but it was not these that touched me most. What truly impressed me were the poor people,
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Archaeology · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris
In big museums I always head first for the Egyptian antiquities gallery. You never know what unique artefacts may turn up there. Even collections as colossal as the Louvre count the legacy of Ancient Egypt among their chief treasures. And if you hurried through the Louvre's Egyptian gallery