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Is it true that the director of the film "King Kong" was inspired by the fairy tale of Korney Chukovsky?

Is it true that instead of a photograph of Tsvetaeva on the cover of her collection, a photo of an emigrant living now in Houston was used?

Is it true that in the name of Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace” the word “world” means “universe, society”, and not “lack of war”?

Is it true that the name Svetlana was invented by the poet Vasily Zhukovsky?

Is it true that Gogol was buried alive?
