The Grandson of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin with the Girls

The grandson of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin with the girls. 1902, Povarskaya Street

Nikolai Alexandrovich Pushkin and his wife Nadezhda Alexeyevna Petunnikova on the right, with Madame M. N. Nikolayeva on the left.

The family, with two children, emigrated after 1917 and settled in Belgium.

The writer Kataev visited the poet's descendants in 1958 and observed that in profile Nikolai Alexandrovich resembled his grandfather, while his eyes were those of Goncharova.

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

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The Grandson of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin with the Girls

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

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Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s