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Natalia Goncharova - Design for final backcloth.

Dead Russian soldier propped upright by Finnish troops during the Winter War as a warning to other Russian troops, 1939.

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Feodor Ivanovich Zakharov, Football, oil on card laid down on board 18 x 28¼ in., 1912.

Grand Duke Alexei received as a gift from chief Spotted Tail an Indian wigwam and a bow and arrows. The Grand Duke took them back to St. Petersburg. At present they are kept at the museum in Tver. In memory of his adventures in the America, the Grand Duke organized every year a special entertainment. The actors arrived to a village of tents in old carriages drawn by heavy horses. On the palaces lake there were "Indian" pirogues. Men with swords and tomahawks danced with women dressed in long old skirts. The performance was supposed to give the attendance an image of the American Old West. - Source

Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich poses for a photograph during his visit to the United States, 1871.

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Artist Unknown - Workers and Peasants! Come to Aid the Fighters for a Worldwide October Revolution! All join the International Workers Aid Society, 1934

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Because of her excessive curiosity, an old lady fell out of the window and smashed into the ground. Another old lady looked out of the window, staring down at the one who was smashed, but out of her excessive curiosity she also fell out of the window and smashed into the ground. Then the third old lady fell out of the window, then the fourth did, then the fifth. When the sixth old lady fell out of the window, I got bored watching them and went to Maltsev market where, they say, someone gave a woven shawl to a blind.

Falling Old Ladies by Daniil Kharms. written in the 1930's

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Ivan Kramskoy - Portrait of an Unknown Woman, 1883

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View of Troyekurovo village in the Lipetsk Region, 1898-1908.

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Stalin visited his mother very rarely after the Revolution. Beria took responsibility for her care. N. Kipshidze, a doctor who treated Keke in her old age, recalled that Stalin asked his mother at this meeting: “Why did you beat me so hard?” “That’s why you turned out so well”, Keke answered. In return, his mother asked him: “Joseph – who exactly are you now?” “Do you remember the tsar? Well, I’m like a tsar”, replied Stalin. “You’d have done better to have become a priest” was his mother’s retort. She died on June 4, 1937. - Source

Joseph Stalin poses with Lavrentiy Beria and N.A. Kipshidze at a visit to his mother’s home in Georgia, 1935. This was the last time he came to see her.