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"Lev Nikolaevich is being modelled all the time by Trubetskoy, and the bust is very good: majestic, characteristic and true" - Sofya Andreyevna Tolstaya, diary entry of 16 - 23 April 1898. The friendly relations between Tolstoy and Trubetskoy are, in general, well known. Lev Nikolayevich liked the artist'
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Sire, give freedom to the Russian word. Our intellect is cramped, our thought poisons our breast for want of space, it groans in the stocks of the censorship. Give us free speech... we have something to say to the world and to our own people. < > Wash from Russia
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Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was also a rather good artist. In this photograph of 1979, Leonov is at work on his painting “The Voskhod 2 Spacecraft”
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Evil is not the absence of good, but a force in its own right, full and substantial. "Barbarism" by Michel Henry (1922-2002). Henry is the greatest representative of French phenomenology, and sadly little known in present-day philosophical circles. Happily, however, he has very recently been reissued
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She wrote sensual letters to George V and Nicholas II and was a veritable celebrity of her day. It is to this woman that the Entente owes Romania's abandonment of neutrality and its entry into the First World War on the side of Russia and Britain. Queen Marie
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Isabelle Adjani in 1973 and today. A beauty for all seasons
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The artist Vyacheslav Sysoyev (1937-2006)