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...When Ivan Khudiakov died in 1876 in a hospital ward for the mentally insane, he had no idea that the Russian stories he’d gathered and printed 16 years earlier would one day become famous....
...“If Putin’s name was Oleg, there’d be a cult of the all-powerful Oleg by now,” quipped the writer Oleg Kashin....
...A case in point is the 19th-century painter Ivan Aivazovsky....
...He is the son of a politician and diplomat and is an economist educated at Duke University and the University of Paris II....
...Andrew Guthrie, 48, is the West Virginian manager of the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park on Grand Cayman....
...A century ago, King Leopold II of Belgium and his associates destroyed the structure of Congolese tribal society and inflicted hideous suffering on its population as they looted the country....
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