picture in a mirror roughly 1900 Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia taking one of the first teenage self-portraits The debut of the portable Kodak Brownie box camera in 1900 led to photographic self-portraiture becoming a more widespread technique. The method was usually by mirror and stabilizing the camera either on a nearby object or on a tripod while framing via a viewfinder at the top of the box.[3] Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna at the age of 13 was one of the first
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The Einsatzgruppen‚ and The Holocaust by bullets. BY: Kaitlyn Campbell Kaitlyn Campbell 5/2/14 Einsatzgruppen Essay Honors Global The Einsatzgruppen were a highly effective group of mass murderers‚ who had a particularly strong negative bias towards the Jews. The Einsatzgruppen was a German killing squad organized
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— Take a deep breath‚ close your eyes‚ and imagine another time‚ another world You knew love‚ once. But where once was love‚ now remains longing. The sky showed first signs of winter when they found you: a helpless girl‚ lost in a world that had not at all been introduced to her properly. The soot from the night prior and the snow from the early morning clung to your hair and skin‚ just as you had once fastened yourself to your parents’ side. Those who found you knew you as much as you had known
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pagan peoples in the northern Europe reached its peak in the tenth century. Although the breakup of two churches happened in 1054‚ the Russian allegiance to Byzantium helped to determine much of the subsequent history of the country. The Prince of Kiev‚ Saint Vladimir Svyatoslavich‚ the baptizer of the Russians‚ adopted the Christianity in 988 according to the Primary Chronicle. This decision by Prince Vladimir was the result of a process of heightened activity by missionary monks and priests from
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Kremlin to be paraded before him. He chose Anastasia‚ the daughter of a minor noble‚ and their marriage proved to be a very close one. Ivan had huge ambitions for his new Imperial dynasty. He launched a holy war against Russia’s traditional enemy‚ the Tartars. Showing no mercy to these Muslim people Ivan’s conquest of Kazan‚ and later Astrakhan and Siberia‚ gave birth to a sixteenth century personality cult glorifying him as the Orthodox crusader. His wife Anastasia helped to hold his cruelty back but in
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space that exists behind the Dnieper River begins to expand. After the sorcerer kills Katherine‚ the people of Kiev witness this expansion: “…suddenly it became possible to see far away to the ends of the earth. Afar could be seen the blue waters of the mouth of the Dnieper‚ and beyond that the Black Sea was plainly visible.” (Gogol‚ 53) The vast distance that normally exists between Kiev and the sights that the townspeople see (i.e. the Crimea‚ the Sivash‚ the Carpathian mountains) constricts‚ allowing
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Pictures at an Exhibition: A Reminiscence of Victor Hartmann Modest Musorgsky is a famous composer of programmatic music with his best example being Pictures at an Exhibition: a series of short pieces‚ all pertaining to his close friends paintings‚ Viktor Hartman. Musorgsky and Hartman’s relationship was founded in their passion for art and music. Hartman’s paintings were a large source of inspiration for Musorgsky and his compositions‚ where each section of Pictures was written to represent
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Eastern and Western Religions: Differences and Similarities On this vast planet with billions of people occupying its space‚ we can see that people have many differences‚ yet we are similar at our core. People always strive to find why who put us on this Earth and and we have gone to many lengths to find those answers. Religion has answered many of those particular questions for use. People feel at peace knowing that through religion we have found purpose in life and death. Much like people‚ religion
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‘Non-fiction shows us how people cope with difficult situations.’ How does Portrait of a Young Forger illustrate this? ‘Non-fiction shows us how people cope with difficult situations.’ That is a saying very well demonstrated by Marian Pretzel’s autobiography‚ Portrait of a Young Forger. The book is entertaining and enlightening‚ it provides a sense of actuality and gives a real depth to the story‚ with an insight of Marian. The urgency for survival and intensity involves different people’s
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Operation Barbarossa‚ the unparalleled assault that opened an Eastern against the Soviet Union‚ was the largest military offensive in known history‚ and became a turning point in World War II. Following the initial success came slowly formed failures‚ and set the stage for the Soviet Union to repel the largest assault in history‚ turning it into a counter attack with The Red Army’s eyes set on Berlin. The German military‚ widely regarded as the most experienced fighting force in the world‚ was at
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