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The open dinners of Count Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov were the stuff of legend: his table was prized not only by colleagues and kinsmen but by members of the imperial family and by distinguished foreign guests, such as the painter Vigée Le Brun. At times this influential and wealthy gentleman found
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Taganrog is the only Russian city that Garibaldi names in his memoirs. And it is no accident that Garibaldi is commemorated in Taganrog by two monuments. Giuseppe Garibaldi arrived in Taganrog aboard a small merchant vessel with the most prosaic of purposes: to buy flour of a variety popular in
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In Taganrog, in one of the streets nearest the port, there was an old tavern. In the spring of 1833 many Italians gathered there around a young dark-haired man with a shining eye and an inspired tongue. It was a spacious room, its walls blackened by tobacco smoke. The
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The younger sister of the King of the Belgians, 61-year-old Astrid, Princess of Belgium and Archduchess of Austria-Este, is learning a new trade. Should the need arise, we shall find her a post in Moscow's public transport
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Old Friends Johann Strauss the Younger and Johannes Brahms. When Brahms looked through the score of Strauss's waltz "The Blue Danube", he wrote beneath it: "Alas, not by Johannes Brahms." This waltz became Strauss's triumph, eclipsing the successes of his father, Johann
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And Anna Boch in the portrait by Isidore Verheyden
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The bourgeoisie is any group of people dissatisfied with what they have and satisfied with what they are. The Colombian philosopher Nicolás Gómez Dávila
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Equestrian portrait of Prince Boris Nikolayevich Yusupov, 1809, by Antoine-Jean Gros. Collection of the Pushkin Museum
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