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At the funeral of Mikhail Frunze, his horse was led in the procession. 3 November 1925, Red Square, photograph by Arkady Shaikhet. The horse became a full participant in the funeral cortège and walked behind its master's coffin together with the leaders of the Soviet state: Stalin, Zinoviev,
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The grandson of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin with the girls. 1902, Povarskaya Street Nikolai Alexandrovich Pushkin and his wife Nadezhda Alexeyevna Petunnikova on the right, with Madame M. N. Nikolayeva on the left. The family, with two children, emigrated after 1917 and settled in Belgium. The writer Kataev visited the poet&
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The Wild Hunt, 1890. My favourite among the works of the remarkable Bavarian artist Franz von Stuck, incidentally one of Kandinsky's teachers at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. The elongated horizontal canvas, the arrangement of the figures and the dark colours make the picture resemble cave art.
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Almost 15 years have passed since the release of the film «Vysotsky. Thank God I'm Alive», and since then, it seems, the media have rarely recalled the Soviet Union's foremost bard. And now CHTIVO is bringing out an issue devoted entirely to Vladimir Vysotsky. I am
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How I wish I could say all that I feel about Dostoevsky. I never saw the man and never had any direct dealings with him; and suddenly, when he died, I understood that he was the closest, dearest, most necessary person to me. And it never once entered my head
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The paternal grandparents of Vladimir Vysotsky were called Wolf Shliomovich Vysotsky and Dora Ovseyevna Bronstein. Wolf was a schoolfellow of Mikhoels and Babel. Dora Ovseyevna's stepfather, Lev Levin, physician to members of the government and to Maxim Gorky, was shot in 1938 on a charge of participating in
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Louis XVI could not abide cats and was mortally afraid of them. Once, during a brilliant reception at Versailles, a cat somehow slipped into the hall; Louis, beside himself, leapt from his seat, seized a heavy candelabrum and killed the animal on the spot. On another occasion, hammer in hand,
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The last known family photograph, taken before Elsa left Russia with her mother in the summer of 1918. In the photograph: Lev Grinkrug, Elsa, her friend Tamara Beglyarova, Elena Yulyevna Kagan and Lilya Brik
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Full Speed Ahead. Alexander Deineka
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Parents: Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman Husbands: Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Wiedemann Partners: David Lynch, Gary Oldman
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A Former Ballet Dancer Selling Flowers in Moscow Still Does the Splits at Sixty. Photograph of 1960 by Hilmar Pabel, the square in front of the Belorussky Station