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Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi Announces Readiness to Return to Iran

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and Empress Farah Pahlavi, the son and wife of the last Shah of Iran, have expressed a wish to return to their country throughout all 47 years of their forced exile. And now, after two weeks of unrest against the regime in the Islamic Republic of

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Such a Handsome Fellow

Photo by Paul Nicklen

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Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known as Grandma Moses, was a self-taught American artist and one of the leading representatives of primitivism

Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known as Grandma Moses, was a self-taught American artist and one of the leading representatives of primitivism. Anna began to paint when she was already over 70. Almost all her life she worked on farms in the states of New York and Virginia. A

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Pope Leo XIV: Pride Lies at the Root of Political Conflicts

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Leningrad-born journalist Katya Kazakina wins, for the second time, the prestigious Front Page Award for women in journalism, presented by the New York Newswomen's Club

Leningrad-born journalist Katya Kazakina has been awarded, for the second time, the prestigious Front Page Award for women in journalism, presented by the New York Newswomen's Club. Kazakina is a senior reporter at Artnet News, where she writes the popular weekly column The Art Detective, covering the

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Yesterday the world bade farewell to Brigitte Bardot: the 91-year-old actress was laid to rest in a cemetery overlooking the Mediterranean, where her parents are also buried

Macron did not appear at the farewell ceremony, the funeral or the official requiem mass. The Bardot family did not respond to the presidential administration's proposal to hold a state farewell ceremony. The French media wrote that this was connected with the wishes of the deceased, her attitude

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Pavel Nashchokin's Christmas Present to Pushkin, 1832

I send you your forebear with inkwells, which open, and in opening I discover that he was a man à double vue (clear-sighted) Inkwell with a figurine of a little blackamoor: Russian work of the 1830s, collection of the Pushkin Museum-Apartment. Beside the figure of the youth stand

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Leo Tolstoy at his desk in the study at Yasnaya Polyana in 1908

Photograph by Karl Bulla

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Dostoevsky took this New Testament with him to penal servitude in Siberia

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Dostoevsky Was Sentenced to Death by Firing Squad

The sentence on Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was pronounced in November 1849. His offence was participation in the circle of Mikhail Petrashevsky. In the spring of 1849 the circle was broken up. Dostoevsky was arrested together with other participants in the gatherings. For the whole duration of the investigation he was

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Everything has become heavier and more massive, and so man, too, must become harder, for man must become harder than anything on earth and stand to it as the diamond to glass

Osip Mandelstam

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But I warn you, I live for the last time

But I warn you, That I am living for the last time. Not as a swallow, nor as a maple, Nor as a reed, nor as a star, Nor as spring water, Nor as a peal of bells, I shall not trouble people And visit other people's dreams