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    helping themselves from the serving dishes. That contrasts to service à la russe ("service in the Russian style") in which dishes are brought to the table...
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    communauté russe en France est "éclectique"". Archived from the original on 22 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2014. "communauté russe en France"...
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    represented identities for which Soviet citizens should strive, exemplifying the traits of the "New Soviet Man.": 57  The heroes of Soviet tales were meant to portray...
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    soil!" Wilhelm advocated a "regular international all-worlds pogrom à la Russe" as "the best cure" and further believed that Jews were a "nuisance that...
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    (fr) Alexandre Afanassiev (trans. Lise Gruel-Apert), Contes populaires russes, Maisonneuve et Larose, 1992 (fr) Richard Bessière, Traditions, légendes...
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    The Firebird (category Ballets Russes productions)
    It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine, who collaborated...
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    nose, gangly legs, a potbelly, large cheeks, and a gigantic mouth. These traits were inherited from two stock characters of the Atellan Farce. He typically...
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    Kyrgyz Horse in 1894, illustration from Les races chevalines - avec une étude spéciale sur les chevaux russes...
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    "Ruling Families in the Russian Political Order. 1689–1825". Cahiers du Monde Russe et Soviétique. 28 (3/4): 233–293, 295–322. doi:10.3406/cmr.1987.2115. JSTOR 20170587...
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    in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting...
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