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On the Russian icons in the world knew it was the period of Bolshevism. Icons XIV-XV centuries .. became known only after the revolution. They were dragged into the daylight of the churches, lifted the salaries, painting opened, it became evident. The whole world saw it and gasped.
What was Russia on the eve of the First World War and the Revolution:
A well-known French economist Edmond Teri predicted: "If the great European peoples things go the same way between...
