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... Russia [ now in Russian S.F.S.R . ] — d . Feb. 15 [ Feb. 3 ] , 1857 , Berlin , Ger . ) , the first Russian composer to win international recognition and the acknowledged founder of the Russian na- tionalist school . Glinka's interest in ...
... Russia [ now in Russian S.F.S.R . ] — d . Feb. 15 [ Feb. 3 ] , 1857 , Berlin , Ger . ) , the first Russian composer to win international recognition and the acknowledged founder of the Russian na- tionalist school . Glinka's interest in ...
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... Russian Em- pire - d . Feb. 27 [ March 11 ] , 1883 , Baden- Baden , Ger . ) , statesman who served as Rus- sia's foreign minister during the quarter cen- tury following the Crimean War ( 1853-56 ) , when Russia was trying to regain its ...
... Russian Em- pire - d . Feb. 27 [ March 11 ] , 1883 , Baden- Baden , Ger . ) , statesman who served as Rus- sia's foreign minister during the quarter cen- tury following the Crimean War ( 1853-56 ) , when Russia was trying to regain its ...
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... Russian life as few other Russian authors before or since . The bitterness of these early experiences later led him to choose the word gorky ( " bitter " ) as his pseudonym . His late adolescence and early manhood were spent in Kazan ...
... Russian life as few other Russian authors before or since . The bitterness of these early experiences later led him to choose the word gorky ( " bitter " ) as his pseudonym . His late adolescence and early manhood were spent in Kazan ...
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