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by N. Akimushkin, 1958

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poster against religion (1930)

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Valery Jacobi - Jesters at the Court of Empress Anna Ioanovna of Russia (1872)

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Here gathered in the bedroom of sick Empress Anna (lying in the bed): Biron (sitting at the bedhead ), jesters trying to cheer up by playing leapfrog: they are M.A. Galitsyn (bending), N.F. Volkonsky who jumped upon Galitsyn; Apraksin ( sprawled on the floor ), Jester Balakirev ( rises above all ) , Pedrillo ( with a violin ) and d’Akosta ( with a whip ). By the bed- Countess Biron; N.F. Lopukhina, her favorite Count Karl Gustav von Löwenwolde and Duchess of Hessen-Homburg at a table playing cards, behind them - Count Munnich and Prince Nikolai Troubetskoy. Near Biron - his son( with a whip) and the chief of the Secret Chancellery - A.I.Ushakov, near sitting: the future regent of Russia Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna, the French Ambassador de la Chétardie and Count Jean Armand de L’Estocq (surgeon). On the floor by the bed - dwarf - jester Kalmyk Buzheninova. Aside, a poet V.K. Trediakovsky standing near the roost with parrots. At the entrance - watching the scene indignantly - The Cabinet minister A. Volynsky

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Russian Fleet attacks the Ottomans at the Battle of Navarino, 1827, by Ivan Aivazovsky

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During WWI, the Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia served as lady patroness of her own war committee for women widowed and children orphaned by the war, a cause she held close to her own heart.

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