... words calling her a "benevolent despot," meaning an absolutist monarch molded by the philosophies of the Enlightenment. Rightfully named, she expanded culture and art, by building new schools, hospitals, founded the Hermit-Age (a famous art museum in St, Petersburg), granting the people freedom of speech and press, the right to private property, and the freedom of religion. Catherine had imitated ... ...

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... he took part in a series of bank robberies and other crimes (supposedly in order to raise funds for the "professional" revolutionaries like himself). Shortly thereafter he migrated to Baku and founded a Bolshevist group among the Baku socialists. In January 1912, Stalin was nominated by Lenin to the Central Committee; by now Lenin was quite impressed with Stalin's writings (which he generally ... ...

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... pass away weeks later. Yet her life paved the way for young Revolutionary artist to have an opportunity to paint and create art in many of the studios she had founded. Her work as a Russian Revolutionary avant-garde member to this day has not gone unnoticed. As significant as Rozanova was to the avant-garde her death marks a time when Suprematism ... ...

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... he took part in a series of bank robberies and other crimes (supposedly in order to raise funds for the "professional" revolutionaries like himself). Shortly thereafter he migrated to Baku and founded a Bolshevist group among the Baku socialists. In January 1912, Stalin was nominated by Lenin to the Central Committee; by now Lenin was quite impressed with Stalin's writings (which he generally ... ...

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... ended up working together, forming successful ballet companies. The impresario, and art connoisseur, Sergie Diaghilev, revolutionized dance completely in the 20th century (Encyclopedia.com, 1). A graduate of the Imperial Ballet, he founded the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909 (Parsons, 7). Almost any major dancer who had any influence outside of Russia danced with Sergie Diaghilev's ballet company. He took everything to another ... ...

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