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In the photograph: Patriarch Pavle (Stojčević) at the Ravanica Monastery in 1994. Patriarch Pavle (1914-2009) is, perhaps, the most beloved hierarch of recent times among the Serbs. They say of him: that he has not yet been glorified among the saints is not his problem, but ours. A man
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Queen Anna. This is the only surviving authentic signature of Anna Yaroslavna, daughter of Yaroslav the Wise, who became Queen of France. The charter is kept in the French archives and was attributed by historians in the 19th century, when systematic work began on the royal documents of medieval France.
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Born on 12 October 1969 in Leningrad. Graduated from a school of literature and history and from an art school in 1986. From 1987 to 1989 served in the Soviet Army at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. On returning from the army he began performing as a soloist in Sergey Kuryokhin’s
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At least come out of the water to eat! Look, you've gone quite blue - the deafening cries of the public, to the accompaniment of which Salvador Dalí took his rest in Venice
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Michel Houellebecq
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Robert De Niro first visited Moscow in February 1982, on the eve of filming Emil Loteanu's "Anna Pavlova", in a cameo as the ballerina's impresario Solomon Yurok. The participation of a Hollywood star might have secured the film a release in the United States,
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American General Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the coalition forces during the Gulf War in 1991
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Meet her! Epstein. Elizaveta Ivanovna Epstein. Born in the Russian Empire in 1879. She received her artistic education in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where she worked in private studios and attended classes at the Academy of Arts. She studied under Leonid Pasternak. At the beginning of the twentieth century she
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Photo by Yury Rybchinsky