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Draft versions of a poetic list of peoples differ from the familiar text

The lines in the third stanza of Pushkin's "Monument" listing the peoples of Russia who will remember the poet. "And the proud grandson of the Slavs, and the Finn, and the now-savage Tungus, and the Kalmyk, friend of the steppes" - Literal translation in

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Jean Marais (the handsome one) and Jean Cocteau (the clever one)

A vaulted frescoed hall with a woman in a pale gown on a throne at the centre, surrounded by people in red robes.

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Painting by Frank Cadogan Cowper, 1910, from the Tate collection

Lucrezia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI. Frank Cadogan Cowper, 1910. Tate Museum

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Saltykov-Shchedrin on Zola and Goncourt after reading “Manette Salomon”, in a letter of 1875

Saltykov-Shchedrin in a letter to Nekrasov, 14 November 1875:. “Goncourt writes excellently… Zola’s article on the Goncourts is very good… Zola’s despatch on the floods is the kind of thing that makes one’s hair stand on end. A whole appalling drama… If it does not work

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Saltykov-Shchedrin was not a particularly sociable man, nor one inclined to make new acquaintances: for many years he kept company with one and the same circle of people

Saltykov-Shchedrin was not a particularly sociable man, nor one inclined to make new acquaintances: for many years he kept company with one and the same circle of people. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he was not dazzled by foreign authors and did not cling to them. All the more

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To Mark the Centenary of Irina Antonova, Her Study in the Main Building of the Pushkin Museum Is Opened to Visitors as a Museum Room

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Truman Capote (1924-1984) and Lee Radziwill (1933-2019)

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Plaque in memory of Irina Antonova unveiled on Pokrovsky Boulevard for her centenary

A memorial plaque has been unveiled at 14/5 Pokrovsky Boulevard in memory of Irina Alexandrovna Antonova, who lived there for 40 years. The installation of the commemorative plaque, the work of Frangulyan, formed part of the Pushkin Museum's events marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of

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Portraits of Tatyana Grigoryevna Gnedich (1907-1976) by Arthur Fonvizin and Nikolai Akimov, Late 1950s

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At the Leningrad University philological faculty, Tatyana Gnedich, great-great-grandniece of the translator of the «Iliad», was accused of concealing her noble origins

At the Leningrad University philological faculty, Tatyana Gnedich, great-great-grandniece of the translator of the «Iliad», was accused, in her postgraduate studies, of concealing her noble origins. When the accusation reached Gnedich herself, she objected: how could she possibly have concealed her nobility with the surname Gnedich, when the

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Tatyana Gnedich, arrested in 1945, translated Byron’s “Don Juan” in prison

“Gnedich was arrested right at the end of the war, in 1945. By her own account, she had denounced herself. What she told was scarcely plausible, yet it may have been the product of a peculiar wartime psychosis: supposedly she, then a candidate member of the Party (at the Central

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Pushkin's letter to his friend Prince Pyotr Vyazemsky of 27 May 1826

"I despise my fatherland from head to foot, of course, but it vexes me if a foreigner shares this feeling with me" Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, in a letter to his friend Prince Pyotr Andreyevich Vyazemsky, 27 May 1826