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Lenin in a Wig, August 1917
Looking at this face, aflame with insidious schemes, one cannot help asking: was Lenin a German spy after all, or a German agent? That Germany financed the Russian revolution is known for a fact. What remains in question is precisely how the revolutionaries spent the German money. Second, the German
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Hugh Grant turns 65 today; he took up acting, incidentally, after a failed attempt to obtain a doctorate in art history
Hugh Grant turns 65 today; he took up acting, incidentally, after a failed attempt to obtain a doctorate in art history. It must be admitted that humanity has lost a most artistic scholar
Art · Mores · People
Pieter Dirksz, also known as "Longbeard", was a shipwright who earned extra money touring the fairs as one of the attractions
Pieter Dirksz, also known as "Longbeard", was a shipwright who earned extra money touring the fairs as one of the attractions. The takings from "viewings" of his beard he donated to the Edam orphanage, which commemorated him as its benefactor in a portrait at the end
Archive · Moscow · Observations · Mores · People
Andropov's Flat at 26 Kutuzovsky Prospekt
Andropov's flat at 26 Kutuzovsky Prospekt. The photographs were taken in 1984, after the General Secretary's death. A luxury interior from an era when the profession of interior designer, to all appearances, did not exist in the country
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Isaac Newton, according to his manuscripts of 1704, basing himself on his own interpretation of the Bible, above all the Book of Daniel, calculated that the end of the world would come in 2060
Sir Isaac Newton's prediction of the end of the world in 2060 rests on his reading of the prophetic chronologies, which place the end of the world 1260 years after the beginning of the decay of the early Christian Church, a moment he dated to about the year
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Circus Performer Matryona Rasputina, Daughter of Grigory Rasputin
After the publication of Yusupov's memoirs about the murder of Rasputin, Maria brought a suit against Felix Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitry Romanov, demanding monetary compensation for the moral damage caused, but the claim was dismissed, since under French law the court did not consider it possible to
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Charlie Chaplin at a Fancy-Dress Party in 1925
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The Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House holds collections of verse with pasted-over pages
The Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House holds collections of verse with pasted-over pages. It is reported that Akhmatova herself pasted these pages shut. What is beneath? Akhmatova's poems about Stalin. It is believed that Anna Andreyevna was compelled to write them in order to help her
Books · Mores · Education · People
Why do parents send their <children> away from home to the gymnasium?
Why do parents send their <children> away from home to the gymnasium? It suddenly became clear to me. If parents kept their <children> at home, they would see the consequences of their own immoral life in their children. Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy learned to ride a bicycle at the age of 67
It is very strange why I am drawn to do this. Yevgeny Ivanovich tried to dissuade me and was distressed that I ride, but I feel no shame. On the contrary, I feel that I do not care what people think, and it is simply sinless, and gives me a
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I drew a very lucky ticket in my fate, because at the end of 1944, while the war was still going on, I was sent to the Moscow Choir School
I drew a very lucky ticket in my fate, because at the end of 1944, while the war was still going on, I was sent to the Moscow Choir School. This was preceded by the wartime years and then a rather painful evacuation. My father had already sent my papers