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Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle at the Armistice Day Parade on 11 November 1944, Champs-Élysées, Paris

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Elizabeth II on the Cover of Time

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Russia in the Paintings of Dmitry Myasnikov 💙

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Mood: Virginia Woolf in a Portrait by Bett Norris

Old sepia photograph of an infant in light clothes lying in an open case, with a cello standing beside it.

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The infant Mstislav Rostropovich in a cello case, Baku, 1927

Mstislav Rostropovich in a cello case. With his little left hand he touches the strings. Baku, 1927 His father, Leopold Rostropovich (1892-1942), was a cellist, conductor and teacher, and moved to Baku to teach. He would later become a professor at the Azerbaijan Conservatoire

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Queen Victoria in a donkey-drawn carriage during her visit to France in March 1891

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The 1930s

The 1930s. A shot by one of the creators of the Hollywood style in photography, Murray Korman (1902-1961), incidentally a native of the town of Kamianets-Podilskyi

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Queen Mary of Teck died on 24 March 1953 as the result of the same procedure as her husband, King George V, after the administration of tranquillisers

Queen Mary of Teck died on 24 March 1953 as the result of the same procedure as her husband, King George V, after the administration of tranquillisers. Queen Mary lived for almost 86 years, King George V for 71

Painted portrait of an elderly bearded man in a tall fur hat and red patterned robe with a fur collar, against a greenish background.

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Emperor Sigismund in a portrait by Pisanello, presumably from 1433

A hat fit for a king! Or, to be more precise, for the Elector of Brandenburg, King of Hungary, Germany, Bohemia and Lombardy, and Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. Portrait of Sigismund, presumably of 1433, by the Italian Quattrocento painter Pisanello

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Irina Antonova at the museum congress in the Hermitage, a photograph for her 101st birthday

How curious that my Instagram, in its "Memories" section, reminded me of this photograph of Irina Antonova, taken four years ago, precisely today, on the day of her 101st birthday. The picture is from the museum congress at the Hermitage: everyone was waiting for Irina Alexandrovna with a

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“I fear that we are tempted to build a human church, in keeping with the times and with our own notions”

Cardinal Robert Sarah