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Page 341
At the end of the 16th century the Stroganov school made its appearance in
Moscow, introducing a particular manner of icon painting in diminutive size. Its
masters became famous for the elegant attitudes of their figures, the eastem
flavour of ...
At the end of the 16th century the Stroganov school made its appearance in
Moscow, introducing a particular manner of icon painting in diminutive size. Its
masters became famous for the elegant attitudes of their figures, the eastem
flavour of ...
Page 975
Simultaneous with these developments was the more ambitious initiative of
France's new foreign minister, Jean-Louis Barthou, to create an “Eastem Locarno
," whereby France's separate treaties with Poland and with the states of the Little
...
Simultaneous with these developments was the more ambitious initiative of
France's new foreign minister, Jean-Louis Barthou, to create an “Eastem Locarno
," whereby France's separate treaties with Poland and with the states of the Little
...
Page 1089
The headwaters of the Selenga River, which rise in eastem Mongolia and flow
through Lake Baikal (Ozero Baikal), the world's largest freshwater lake, into the
Angara tributary of the Yenisey, may be reckoned as the river's ultimate source, ...
The headwaters of the Selenga River, which rise in eastem Mongolia and flow
through Lake Baikal (Ozero Baikal), the world's largest freshwater lake, into the
Angara tributary of the Yenisey, may be reckoned as the river's ultimate source, ...
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