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Is it true that Dumas the Father is Pushkin who faked his death?

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Is it true that the expression “small victorious war” was coined by Minister Plehve?

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

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Is it true that Carl Faberge created The Proletarian Breakfast?

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Is it true that Smolensk peasants went to France to get vaccinated against rabies?

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Is it true that the mutiny on the battleship Potemkin occurred because of wormy meat?

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

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Is it true that the portrait of Lopukhina by Borovikovsky was considered cursed in Pushkin’s time?

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

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

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

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Is it true that in the 19th century a Russian peasant was exiled to the village of Baikonur for talking about flying to the moon?

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