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Isaac Israilevich Brodsky (1883-1939) was one of the foremost, most acclaimed and most fame-showered creators of paintings about the life of Lenin and of canvases on the history of the Party. To his brush belong such monumental works as “Lenin Addressing the Workers of the Putilov Factory Rally
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There is a recollection by Vyacheslav Molotov of how, and how much, he was paid in the years of his political activity. The account was taken down in the 1970s, when Molotov was already past eighty, from his own words by the Soviet writer Feliks Chuev, and published in the
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Do you know why Heine so loved Napoleon? Besides the spirit of the French Revolution, with whose grandeur the name of Bonaparte was invariably associated, it was precisely thanks to Napoleon that the movement for Jewish emancipation rose throughout Europe. He is often called the liberator of the Jews. What
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The lovely Maria Dobrovolskaya, head of the Laboratory of Contextual Anthropology at the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has spoken on a most unusual subject: vegetarianism and ancient people. Besides such questions as vegetarians among the ancestors of modern man and the influence of diet on
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Renata Litvinova is a person whom everyone adores, and not only on her birthday. Understandably so: Renata strikes straight to the heart, even when she is firing at the ceiling. The main thing is that the bullets never run out
Architecture · Faith · Art · Observations · People · Rome
This sculpture, the equal of Bernini's finest works and a flawless example of Roman Baroque, was made in 1703 by the Frenchman Pierre Le Gros: a sculpted portrait of Saint Stanislaus Kostka, the blessed patron of Poland and of lay servants of the Church. It is not the
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The very room in which Catherine of Aragon, who to her last day called herself Queen of England, the first wife of Henry VIII, died on 7 January 1536 is now the office of the headmaster of the prestigious Kimbolton boarding school. So if the queen's ghost does
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Old Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, has opened a book club on Instagram. The page already has more than 25,000 followers. The Reading Room of Her Royal Highness, consort of Prince Charles, will be a place for book recommendations to Camilla's taste, talk of literature, meetings with authors
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Today the Italian press is chewing over Rowan Atkinson's remark that he is "tired of political correctness, it is like living in the Middle Ages". The Italians are quoting an interview given in honour of the actor's 66th birthday, in which he spoke, among
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I have a naive but perfectly achievable wish: that good, true translations of the English poet and saint Robert Southwell might at last be published in Russian. It is hard to find an author who describes the Christian universe so eloquently and uplifts the spirit so, or who conveys metaphysical
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The ballet master Natalia Kasatkina, awarded the Order of Friendship, responded to the honour most poetically: "I value very much the words that are usually spoken or written along with this order. But my own reply is always the same: I serve Labour Ballet!"