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The film will be directed by the actress Emily Mortimer, for whom the project marks her directorial debut. The female lead is played by Alison Oliver, known for Saltburn. The story follows a Russian poet who falls in love with a British student. The action is set in Moscow in
Books · Monarchies · Moscow · People
The People's Artist of Russia will appear on the dramatic stage for the first time, playing Louis XIV, King of France, in Yury Kvyatkovsky's production of Mikhail Bulgakov's play A Cabal of Hypocrites.
Science · People
German chemist August Kekulé is said to have made the greatest discovery of his life in a dream. Kekulé had long supposed that the valency of carbon was four, but could not understand how, this being so, a benzene molecule could consist of 6 atoms of tetravalent carbon and 6
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Monument to Lenin on Capri. The five-metre marble stele by the Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzù was erected in 1970 in the Gardens of Augustus, to mark the centenary of Lenin's birth, at the commission of the Soviet embassy in Italy. The inscription on the stele reads: “A
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Paintings from Adrien Brody's debut exhibition in New York as proof that a man cannot be equally bad at two different things. And Brody the painter is even worse than Brody the actor
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Dmitry Shostakovich's First Symphony, which brought him worldwide fame, was written as a graduation project. The first performance took place in May 1926 and caused a sensation; before long the symphony was being played across the country and abroad, in Berlin, Philadelphia and New York. Thus the 19-
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The production of quality fertilisers lent serious support to the agricultural boom of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was precisely in these years that crop farming and animal husbandry were wholly transformed. The zenith of French agriculture is usually placed in the period from 185+ to 1880:
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Cosimo III de' Medici placed the Russian pensioner Ivan Nikitin in the academy of the painter Tommaso Redi. It was here that Nikitin painted a portrait of Peter I, who had sent him to study; the picture is in the collection of the Uffizi
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Alexander the Great watches his beloved Roxana from a special bubble-shaped device for underwater travel. The technology of the future in the service of the ancient world
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Footballers, by the artist Nicolas de Staël, 1952. Nikolai Vladimirovich Stael von Holstein, a French abstract painter of Russian origin, the son of a general in the Russian army. He is better known under the name of Nicolas de Staël
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My dear mama, on Tuesday there was a festival I shall never forget. We made our solemn entry into Paris. As for honours, we received all the honours that can be imagined, but it was not these that touched me most. What truly impressed me were the poor, who expressed
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