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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama died on 14 August in a Tokyo hospital at the age of 97

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama died on 14 August in a Tokyo hospital at the age of 97. Her studio and the David Zwirner gallery announced the news only on 26 August. Kusama was born in 1929 in Matsumoto and began to draw as a child, as a way of coping

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Who Is the Lord for Me?

Who is the Lord for me? Do I truly know Him? What does His Gospel demand of me today? What steps must I take? Pope Leo XIV turned to the Gospel reading in which Christ asks His disciples who they say that He is. The question is put to people

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Alexander Rodchenko with a Pair of Compasses, 1948

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Soviet Soldiers on the Steps of the Reich Chancellery

Photograph by Yevgeny Khaldei, May 1945

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Joseph Brodsky in Leningrad on the day of his departure from the USSR, 4 June 1972

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Tatiana Nikitichna Tolstaya as a Child

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Envy of the Soviet Passport against the Brooklyn Bridge and the legendary neo-Gothic Woolworth Building, at the time of the photograph the tallest building in the world

That is to say, the page from issue 7 of the magazine "USSR in Construction" for 1940 is a photomontage. Mayakovsky, in overcoat and hat, holding a gigantic Soviet foreign passport, was superimposed on this historic photograph by Irving Underhill, taken in 1921. The most amusing thing is

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The physiologist Ivan Pavlov with his colleagues and students of the Military Medical Academy before a demonstration of experiments on the transmission of conditioned reflexes

Professor Georgy Konradi recalled that Ivan Petrovich had quite literally grown into one with the dog as an object of study, and that when demonstrating a frog to an audience he regularly slipped and called it a dog. But the atmosphere of the laboratories was described in most detail by

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In a photograph of the 1910s taken in Saint Petersburg by the master of reportage Iosif Otsup, Alexandr Kuprin sits second from the left at a laid table

The archivists of Pushkin House have provisionally titled this negative a novelist's feast in the company of friends. The identities of the other participants cannot be established with certainty, given the writer's vast circle of acquaintance: he fell in with celebrated poets, hacks from the boulevard

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The lion tamer Irina Bugrimova with a lion in the early 1960s

The lion tamer Irina Bugrimova with a lion in the early 1960s. Photograph by Semyon Mishin-Morgenstern. Irina Bugrimova was the first woman lion tamer in the USSR and a People's Artist of the Soviet Union. She was born on 13 March 1910 in Kharkiv, into the family

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Training Postponed

A photograph by the American photographer Ray Fisher (1924-2020), taken in the second half of the twentieth century. Fisher was known above all as a photojournalist and the author of portraits of politicians, musicians and public figures, yet his studio work demonstrates a different approach

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President of Italy Sergio Mattarella Turns 85

The President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, is 85 years old. He has held the post since 2015. In Italy the president is elected by secret ballot, at a joint session of both chambers of parliament and special delegates from the regions, for a term of seven years