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Daniel Leopold Wildenstein (11 September 1917 – 23 October 2001) was a French art dealer, historian and owner-breeder of thoroughbred and standardbred race horses. He was the third member of the family to preside over Wildenstein & Co. , one of the most successful and influential art-dealerships of the 20th century.
Signing of the armistice between Russia and the Central Powers on 15 December 1917. On 15 December [O.S. 2 December] 1917, an armistice was signed between the Russian Republic led by the Bolsheviks on the one side, [1] and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Bulgaria, the German Empire and the Ottoman Empire—the Central Powers—on the other. [2]
It is a celebratory dramatization of the 1917 October Revolution commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the event. Originally released in the Soviet Union as October , the film was re-edited and released internationally as Ten Days That Shook The World , after John Reed 's popular 1919 book on the Revolution.
The film documents the famous Russian Avant-garde artists that flourished after the October Revolution, only to be later suppressed by Joseph Stalin's regime. The documentary was filmed on location in London , Saint Petersburg and Moscow , with access to The Tretyakov Gallery , The Russian Museum , The Hermitage Museum and in co-operation with ...
Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914–1921 is a narrative history of the Russian Revolution and Civil War, written by Laura Engelstein and published in 2017 by Oxford University Press. The release was timed with the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
Jocelyn Wildenstein may not necessarily be a household name, but she has an undeniably recognizable face.. Nicknamed "Catwoman," the New York City socialite became a tabloid fixture in the 1990s ...
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Revolutionary Mass Festivals (in Russian массовые праздники), or Mass Spectacles, were participatory, staged cultural events held in the Soviet Union.They were held during the period of the Russian Civil War following the October Revolution of 1917.