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It turns out that the real name of the writer and playwright Ludmila Petrushevskaya is Dolores
Ludmila Stefanovna relates that children bullied her over this name, and at the age of 15 she asked her mother to change it. She had always called herself Lyusya, and so she became Ludmila. Given the truly fantastic biography of this living Russian classic, I have no difficulty in believing
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The new issue of Elle France carries a major interview with Annie Leibovitz
The new issue of Elle France carries a major interview with Annie Leibovitz. Solène Delos spoke to Annie on the occasion of her being awarded the William Klein Prize and the opening of Leibovitz's exhibition at the Académie des Beaux-Arts
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Incidentally, one fact is often left out of the account: the younger sister of Lilya Brik (1891-1978) was another remarkable woman of the twentieth century, the writer Elsa Triolet (1896-1970), wife of Louis Aragon
Geography · Moscow · Mores · People
Maly Theatre actress Vera Shukhmina died in a railway accident on her way to Paris
Is It Wise to Swap Seats on Trains and Aeroplanes? Neither especially celebrated nor especially popular, but nonetheless leaving her mark on the history of the theatre, Vera Alekseyevna Shukhmina, an actress of the Maly Theatre, received an unexpected dismissal in 1925. A woman not yet old, proud and good-
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev in His Youth
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At a meeting of the members of the writers' housing cooperative, engaged in building a five-storey residential House of Soviet Writers and adding storeys to two neighbouring houses in Nashchokin Lane and a house in Kamergersky Lane (Proyezd MKhAT), Mikhai
At a meeting of the members of the writers' housing cooperative, engaged in building a five-storey residential House of Soviet Writers and adding storeys to two neighbouring houses in Nashchokin Lane and a house in Kamergersky Lane (Proyezd MKhAT), Mikhail Bulgakov expressed surprise that a certain Comrade B-
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Alexander Vasiliev, Pyotr Fomenko and Edvard Radzinsky in an archive photograph from the Fomenko Workshop
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Valery Tishkov on the title Father of the Fatherland granted to Peter the Great in 1721
"..Notable in this respect is the act of 1721 that bestowed on Peter I the title of Emperor of All Russia. The members of the Senate and the Holy Synod asked the sovereign to take upon himself the title "Father of the Fatherland", since he had done
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Bridget of Sweden, patron saint of Europe since 1999, in a painting by Hans Schäufelein
In 1999 John Paul II proclaimed Saint Bridget of Sweden a patroness of Europe. Renowned for her righteous life and her Revelations, the fourteenth-century saint is depicted in a painting by the German artist Hans Schäufelein before the Crucifix, dripping wax from a burning candle onto her hand in
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Arrival of Napoleon's coffin aboard the ship La Belle Poule (The Pretty Hen), 15 December 1840
Arrival of Napoleon's coffin aboard the ship La Belle Poule (The Pretty Hen), 15 December 1840. Eugène Isabey
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MUAR director Likhacheva recalls Shchusev's Stalin Prizes and imperial orders
At the opening of the pre-auction exhibition for Sotheby's Russian Sale, MUAR director Elizaveta Likhacheva reminded guests that Alexey Shchusev was a four-time winner of the Stalin Prize and a holder of an order of the Holy Synod. What is meant is the Order of Saint