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By nationality I am Russian, by origin a native proletarian, a hereditary metalworker. That is all that is known of my ancestry In the memoirs of Leonid Brezhnev, which are believed to have been written from his words by several prominent journalists and editors of the day and merely edited
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John of Kronstadt
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In his youth, Napoleon often skipped meals to save money for books. Napoleonic frugality looked like this: nothing in his room but a bed, an armchair and a mountain of books. The proprietress of the café where he took his meals, seeing his want, often treated the young man to
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The funeral of Anna Akhmatova, 10 March 1966. Second from the left is Yevgeny Rein, beside him Arseny Tarkovsky. At the coffin is Alexey Panteleyev, and behind him Joseph Brodsky.
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Give me the bitter years of illness, Breathlessness, sleeplessness, fever, Take away both my child and my friend, And the mysterious gift of song - Thus I pray at Your liturgy, After so many wearisome days, That the cloud over dark Russia May become a cloud in a glory of rays.
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Michel Houellebecq
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"Teresa Cristina Maria Josefa Gaspar Baltazar Melchiora Januária Rosalía Lucía Francisca de Assis Isabel Francisca de Paula de Alcântara Donata Bonosa Andreia de Avelino Rita Ludgarda Gertrudes Venância Tadea Spiridione Roca Matilde." "Can you make it shorter?" "Teresa Cristina." "Patronymic?" "Princess
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I live on Bolshaya Presnya, 36, 24. A quiet little spot. Peaceful. Well? What is it to me, one would think, that somewhere in the storm-world they have gone and invented a war? Night has come. A fine one. Ingratiating. And why do some of the young ladies tremble,
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Tesla has not been canonised, but as a great scientist he is regarded by the people as a saint of a cultural order. Hence his portraits, and even icons bearing his likeness, may be found in churches, though this is the private initiative of parishes, priests or parishioners. Incidentally, Tesla
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Palaeontologist Andrey Spiridonov puts forward a very interesting idea of Baltica as one of the most ancient continental blocks of the Earth. He calls Baltica a palaeocontinent of the Palaeozoic era and, in effect, the ancient core of Europe, around which smaller continents have accreted over the past 450 million
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