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Is it true that Duma-father is Pushkin staging his death?

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Is it true that the expression “little victorious war” was invented by Minister Pleve?

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Is it true that Catherine II was the first in the Russian Empire, who vaccinated against smallpox?

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Is it true that Karl Faberge created a “proletarian breakfast”?

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Is it true that the Smolensk peasants traveled to France to get involved from rabies?

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Is it true that the riot on the battleship Potemkin occurred due to worm meat?

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

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Is it true that the portrait of Lopukhina Borovikovsky in Pushkin’s time was considered a damned one?

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Did Alexander III say that Russia has only two allies - the army and the fleet?

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Is it true that in the Russian Empire, illiterate soldiers were taught to distinguish between left and right with hay and straw?

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Did Suvorov say: “The soldier who does not dream of becoming a general is bad”?

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Is it true that in the 19th century, a Russian man for talk about flights to the moon was sent to the village of Baikonur?

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