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Is it true that the “word about Igor’s regiment” is a fake of the late XVIII century?

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Is it true that the Bastille contained in the iron mask of the brother of Louis XIV?

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Whether Mark Twain said: “There is nothing easier than quitting smoking! I did it hundreds of times "?

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Did Ernest Hemingway say that you need to write drunk and edit sober?

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Is it true that there is a lifetime photograph of Pushkin?

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Is it true that Yegor and Arkady Gaidars are not relatives?

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Is it true that Victor Hugo is a participant in the shortest correspondence in history?

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Is it true that Nikolai Gumilyov predicted his own execution?

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Is the phrase that they “drink and steal” in Russia, said Saltykov-Shchedrin?

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Is it true that Anton Chekhov drank a glass of champagne before his death?

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Is it true that the Ukrainian authorities have banned the "masters and Margarita"?

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Is it true that the writer Charlotte Bronte had a cat nicknamed Bronezaur?

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