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Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953 and her coronation portrait
What a beauty Elizabeth II is in this coronation portrait. On 2 June 1953, 68 years ago, she was crowned.
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In "The Immortal Barrack", the story of the writer Yury Dombrovsky, forty years after his death:
After the Gulag he wrote the novel "The Monkey Comes for Its Skull" (1959), the collection of novellas "The Dark Lady. Three Novellas about Shakespeare" (1969), his finest poems, and, finally, the largely autobiographical novels "The Keeper of Antiquities" (1964) and its sequel, "
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Werner Herzog and the ship which he (or rather 700 Indians) hauled over a mountain during the filming of Fitzcarraldo, 1982
Werner Herzog and the ship which he (or rather 700 Indians) hauled over a mountain during the filming of Fitzcarraldo, 1982. If you have not yet seen this epic film about the madcap attempt of a fanatical music-lover to build an opera house in the heart of the Peruvian
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The history of the Anke pie of the Tolstoy family and the recipe from Dr Nikolay Anke
As Far as I Know, This Cake Was Once Served to Putin at Yasnaya Polyana. The Anke pie is a celebrated dish of the Tolstoy family, served at the museum on special occasions. I was lucky enough to try it, and the pie was to my taste, so I am
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Of Sofya Andreyevna I shall say this: who are we to call her a harridan?
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First of all, the inscription cut into the cornelian of Pushkin's ring seemed a riddle
First of all, the inscription cut into the cornelian of Pushkin's ring seemed a riddle. The poet, according to numerous accounts, was convinced of a special, almost magical significance in the incomprehensible words, now referring them to the Kabbalah, now to other mystical formulae, and even assuring his
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Tropinin's Portrait of Pushkin and the Posthumous Portrait by Karl Masur
Tropinin's portrait of Pushkin and the posthumous portrait by Karl Masur. In both, the poet wears a ring with a red stone on his thumb. Around this ring, one of Pushkin's favourite, a great many legends have clustered ever since it first appeared. They begin with
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Academician Andrey Sakharov's path from thermonuclear weapons to exile in Gorky
“I live in a flat whose doors are guarded by the police round the clock. Nobody is admitted to see me except members of my family. The price my old friend from Gorky pays for knowing us is an interrogation by the KGB after every visit. There is no telephone
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Andrei Sakharov's Nobel Certificate
Andrei Sakharov's Nobel certificate. A facsimile copy is on display at the Ground Solyanka gallery
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Freud with his mother Amalia Natanson, born in Brody, in a photograph of 1926
“A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence in success that often induces real success,” Sigmund Freud. In this photograph of 1926 Freud is pictured with his mother, Amalia Nathansohn, an Odessan by upbringing, who lived in
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Queen Elizabeth II, speaking by video link with young lifesavers, recalled that in 1941 she had received a medal for her water-rescue training and had been very proud of it
Queen Elizabeth II, speaking by video link with young lifesavers, recalled that in 1941 she had received a medal for her water-rescue training and had been very proud of it. Princess Elizabeth wore the badge constantly on her swimming costume, never suspecting that she had become the first child
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