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Bulgakov's Master and Margarita
09/11/2015
"Mikhail Bulgakov's current reputation as a major 20th-century European writer is posthumous. The story of Bulgakov's reception illustrates the tragedy of Russian culture in the post-revoluti …
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John Sturt engraver
18/05/2015
The Character of Queen Elizabeth by Edmund Bohum
illustrated by John Sturt, 1693
John Sturt (1658–1730) was a well known English engraver in his time and is popu …
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A Booke of Christian Prayers 1578 - Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book - John and Richard Daye
15/05/2015
A Booke of Christian Prayers 1578 - Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book - John and Richard Daye
Joane Wrayford
and her copy of
A Booke of Christian Prayers,
[collec …
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Finding Flegon
08/06/2014
Or rather 'dating' Flegon - but not in the way it's usually understood! The controversial publisher, Alec Flegon brought us many of Russia’s greatest writers at the height of the Cold War.& …
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Sochi for the Summer - and now the Winter, too.
10/02/2014
Sochi
Summer playground for the Nomenklatura – now a winter playground too?
As all the world must know now, the Winter Olympics are being held in Sochi, a city in the province o …
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A Balkan Setting for the First World War
23/01/2014
“ … the wild and lawless countries between the Adriatic and Black Seas.” ‘Through Savage Europe’, 1907, reprinted 1913
“Why ‘savage’ Europe?” asked a friend who recently …
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