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Napoleon and His Son
Napoleon and his son. In a frock. Painting by Karl Karlovich Steuben, engraving after it by Alexandre Vincent Sixdeniers
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Yuliya Borisova and her roles at the Vakhtangov Theatre from 1947 until her death in 2023
I remember first meeting People's Artist of the Soviet Union Yulia Borisova, as I waited by the stage door for Lyudmila Maksakova, to have a word with her after the performance. The door opened and up the steps came a slight, slender Yulia Borisova with a small bouquet
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Actress Vera Vasilyeva has died, and her role in Viktyuk's production is worth revisiting
Vera Vasilyeva, the radiant, kind and exalted Russian actress, has died. Let us revisit her mischievous performance in Viktyuk's touching production and remember this wonderful, remarkable woman with a kind word https://theparnassian.com/v-pamiat-o-romane-viktiuke-predlagaiu-posmotret-odnu-iz-ego-pozdnikh-teatralnykh-rabot-postanovku-
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We Can Hardly Hope to Match Brodsky
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Félix Vallotton, The White Beach, 1913
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Edmond About on Turgenev's service to Russia in his speech at the grave
At Turgenev's graveside, the French writer Edmond François About said: "Your heart belonged to all mankind. But Russia held the first place in your affections. It was Russia you served first and foremost"
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Spanish sergeant Antonio Chover survived dozens of wounds in June 1809
During the Peninsular War, in June 1809, the Spanish courier, cavalry sergeant Antonio Chover, found himself surrounded by a detachment of Marshal Claude-Victor Perrin, and, contrary to the law, was not taken prisoner but cut down with sabres. In the fight Chover lost his left ear and received dozens
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Princess Margaret, evidently, knew what style was
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Byron on an enslaved land of vanished greatness and the battle at Thermopylae
A sorrowful land of vanished greatness, In your fall immortal, great. Oh, who will rouse your children with a cry, Who will free you from slavery? Your sons have now become other men. Not disputing with fate, a hopeless battle At Thermopylae they once awaited. Where now is that valour,
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Rita Rait's story about the Chinese boy Van in the 1939 magazine “Chizh”
A story by the legendary translator and writer Rita Rait-Kovaleva (1898-1988), thanks to whom the Soviet reader became acquainted with many works by Kafka, Faulkner, Salinger, Poe and Vonnegut. Besides her translations, Rita Rait was the author of memoirs of the great writers who were her contemporaries, and
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