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Sergey Ivanovich, the younger brother of the geneticist Nikolai Ivanovich, was a physicist and the founder of a school of physical optics. In 1945 he became President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and held the post until 1951. Nikolai Vavilov was arrested in 1940 on charges of
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Ernest Beaux, a descendant of French émigrés in Russia, became after the Revolution a Russian émigré in France. From the end of the nineteenth century Ernest Beaux worked at the venerable perfumery of Alphonse Rallet in Moscow, on Vyatskaya Street. In 1907 he became technical director of the Rallet factory,
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Cecilia Giménez Zueco has died at the age of 94. She became famous in 2012 for her amateur restoration of the fresco Ecce Homo, painted in 1930 by Elías García Martínez. When a fresco in the Sanctuary of Mercy in the small Spanish town of Borja, in the province of
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The model shows the maintenance tram car in which Danila Bagrov took refuge from the gangsters in the film Brother. On the edge of the car sits the figure of the director. The monument will be cast in bronze at life size and installed in May next year in Yekaterinburg,
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I first came across the name of Tcherina in the opening titles of the film "The Red Shoes", and it turned out that she was not only an actress and ballerina but also a sculptor, painter and writer. Yet she owed her resonant Russian name not to her
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Artist Andrei Klimenko
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The Italian artist Raffaello Sorbi, 1869
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On the 4706th floor: very strange goings-on. The English Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, “The 4706th Floor”, 1958.