V. Dal Museum of the History of Russian Literature seeks a manager for its bookshop

The Editorial and Publishing Department of the V. Dal Museum of the History of Russian Literature seeks a manager. Duties: working in the museum bookshop "Ostroukhov": advising customers, arranging books on the shelves, handling primary accounting documents.
Days off: Monday and Tuesday. Experience is not required. What matters most is a love of reading and of books!
CVs should be sent to n.tarasenko.glm@gmail.com

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Old colour photograph with cracks: adults and children resting on the grass on a slope under a tree.

Orientalist Grigory Kozakov with relatives and children at a picnic near the village of Zhikharevka in 1903

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Orientalist Grigory Kozakov with relatives and children at a picnic near the village of Zhikharevka in 1903

Konstantin Ivanov's Cosmonautics Day poster, published in Moscow in 1977

Signs of violent death found on skulls from burials beside the royal tombs at Abydos

Guests at a costume party in a Moscow theatre in the early 20th century