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This Is What the Influence of Leonardo da Vinci Looks Like
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Griboyedov's arrest in 1826, his interrogation about Russian dress and his release
In 1826 Griboyedov was arrested on the testimony of Prince Trubetskoy, who had named him among the members of a secret society. Alexander Griboyedov was interrogated by General Vasily Vasilyevich Levashov, a veteran of Borodino. Among other things, Griboyedov was asked at the interrogation: - In what sense and to what
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Bourdelle’s “Hannibal’s First Victory” in Montauban and the Eagle in Flaubert’s “Salammbô”
In French Montauban there is an Ingres-Bourdelle Museum, named for the city's two most famous sons. For a hundred and fifty years the museum bore only the name of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, whose collection formed the basis of its holdings; now Bourdelle, the second distinguished native
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The English astrologer William Lilly predicted the fall of the Stuart dynasty, and the prediction came true seventy years later
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Salvador Dalí, 1949
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Soviet People, Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The House-Museum of the Artist and Inventor Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871-1949) in Venice
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A day after the abdication of Nicholas II, his younger brother Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich abdicated too
The document recording his abdication is known as the Act of Non-Acceptance of the Throne, since formally Mikhail did not renounce power but entrusted the fate of the monarchy to the Constituent Assembly, which the Bolsheviks later dispersed. "A heavy burden has been laid upon Me by the
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George Balanchine, founder of the School of American Ballet, born Georgiy Balanchivadze, with the ballerina Suzanne Farrell at the Saratoga Race Course, and an unidentified horseman
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Newton's alchemical laboratory in his Cambridge years stood in the garden of Trinity College, between the chapel and the college gate; its exact location is unknown, but the approximate site was established by excavations, in which were found…
Newton's alchemical laboratory in his Cambridge years stood in the garden of Trinity College, between the chapel and the college gate. Its exact location is unknown, but the approximate site was established by excavations, in which waste from chemical experiments was found. It is known that Newton devoted
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An actress on the set of “The Mongols” in 1960 shot a bow like a professional
Actress Anita Ekberg fires a bow at intrusive paparazzi after they refused to leave her in peace. 1960: the actress was filming "The Mongols", and the bow and arrows were her props. She was a professional markswoman.