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A Poetic Exchange
A poetic exchange. Sergey Gandelevsky replies to Nikolay Gumilyov, 77 years on
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Tolkien sketched Helm's Deep on a used examination paper
Tolkien sketched Helm's Deep on a used examination paper. He wrote the epic The Lord of the Rings while already a professor of Anglo-Saxon language and literature at the University of Oxford
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Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978) and Alexander Tyshler (1898–1980)
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The poet Sergey Mikhalkov with his son Nikita in 1952
Photo by Dmitry Baltermants
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Meditation, Thomas Bossard
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The rehabilitation of Metropolitan Joseph (Chernov) of Alma-Ata and Kazakhstan (1893-1975), accused after the war of collaborating with the occupiers, has recently been revoked
Metropolitan Joseph was a man whom many tipped for Patriarch of All Russia after the death of Alexy I. He is also the author of the legendary retort to the remark that Yury Gagarin had flown into space and had not seen God, which ran thus: “Yury Gagarin did not
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Princess Alexandra of Kent Turns 88: She Is Now the Third Most Senior Member of the British Royal Family, After Her Elder Brother, the 89-Year-Old Duke of Kent, and His 91-Year-Old Wife Katharine
Princess Alexandra of Kent, the most Russian member of the British royal family and a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, is the granddaughter of Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna and the great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Alexander II. Princess Alexandra of Kent is the last member of the English royal
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The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, 1784, Sir Henry Raeburn, National Galleries of Scotland
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Killing of Priest Pavel Dernov and His Three Sons in Yelabuga in February 1918
Author of the Famous Book "Freemasons as Enemies of the Christian Church and State": Hieromartyr Pavel Dernov (1870-1918) of the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church. Father Pavel Dernov was a priest, preacher, writer, regular contributor to the Vyatka Diocesan Gazette and
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The expression “Balzacian age” came into use after the appearance in 1842 of Honoré de Balzac's novel “The Woman of Thirty”
A woman of Balzacian age is between thirty and forty
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Yevgeny Rukhin archive studied at Tretyakov expert institute ahead of 2025 exhibition
At the Tretyakov Independent Research Expertise Centre, specialists are studying the archive of one of the most prominent representatives of non-conformism, Yevgeny Rukhin, the initiator of the famous Bulldozer Exhibition in Moscow. A year ago the artist Yan Ginzburg bought the archive from the heiress of the artist'
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And history, and our fairy tales, and our byliny, and all the rest are being revived
And history, and our fairy tales, and our byliny, and all the rest are being revived. I sometimes watch them with pleasure myself, with my own little ones. Vladimir Putin on domestic cinema