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The Cossacks of the Ataman Regiment

The Cossacks of the Ataman Regiment. The painting "The Return to Camp at Krasnoye Selo of the Cossacks of the Life-Guards Ataman Regiment" was painted by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille in 1889 on commission from the Tsarevich Nicholas. It adorns the corner drawing room of the Alexander

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Founded in 1710 and in existence until 1918, the Kexholm Infantry Regiment twice took Berlin: in 1760 and in 1813

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In 1790 a delegation of Greek captains arrived in Saint Petersburg to meet Catherine the Great and to ask her, in the name of the Greek people, for help in their struggle against the Turks

In 1790 a delegation of Greek captains arrived in Saint Petersburg to meet Catherine the Great and to ask her, in the name of the Greek people, for help in their struggle against the Turks. But the chief point of the Souliots' appeal was a request that Catherine give

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On the Probity of Scholars

In November 1865 Academician Abich asked to be released from the Academy and renounced the title of full member, since at that time he was unable to attend the Academy's sessions and to bear the duties of a member of the conference on an equal footing with the

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This hanging in the Large Dining Room of the collector Sergei Shchukin's house was called the Gauguin iconostasis by the art critic Yakov Tugendhold

This hanging in the Large Dining Room of the collector Sergei Shchukin's house was called the Gauguin iconostasis by the art critic Yakov Tugendhold. At the exhibition in the Hermitage, the iconostasis could be reproduced almost in its entirety

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I do not know whether the video has reached the internet yet, in which, yesterday, at the newly opened Juan Cantina Española in Petersburg, having read the Spanish Vanity Fair and eaten my fill of fried artichokes, I shouted that within two hundred metres

I do not know whether the video has reached the internet yet, in which, yesterday, at the newly opened Juan Cantina Española in Petersburg, having read the Spanish Vanity Fair and eaten my fill of fried artichokes, I shouted that within two hundred metres there was no more beautiful woman

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Display of the exhibition "Sergei Shchukin's Choice"

The display of the exhibition "Sergei Shchukin's Choice. The Birth of Modern Art" at the Hermitage reproduces the hanging of the paintings in Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin's Moscow house, in the Music Room, the Pink Drawing Room, the Large Dining Room, the Cézanne Study and

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Look at the Winter Palace from the start of Nevsky Prospect, from Palace Bridge or from the garden by the western façade, and you cannot fail to notice the tower rising above its general bulk

Look at the Winter Palace from the start of Nevsky Prospect, from Palace Bridge or from the garden by the western façade, and you cannot fail to notice the tower rising above its general bulk. This is the telegraph tower, or optical telegraph tower. A semaphore system of communication was

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A Declaration of Love to the City on the Neva ❤️

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Vrubel at the Russian Museum, Benois Wing

Vrubel at the Russian Museum, Benois Wing. I don't know, am I the only one with questions about the colour scheme of the room?

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The simplest block-shaped Egyptian sculptures of the Middle Kingdom are found in burials and capture the image of the deceased

The simplest block-shaped Egyptian sculptures of the Middle Kingdom are found in burials and capture the image of the deceased. They are usually furnished with an inscription containing particulars of the departed. The sculptures themselves are easy to remember if you have acquaintances whose photos show a handsome head

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