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• ... that Russian painter Konstantin Makovsky (pictured) left the Imperial Academy of Arts without a formal diploma, after having refused to paint on a set topic in Scandinavian mythology?
• ... that the cornerstone for the first museum of space exploration, the Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga, Russia, was laid by Yuri Gagarin?
• ... that some of the earliest Russians in Bulgaria were the Old Believer Nekrasov Cossacks known as Lipovans?

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1. Wikipedia:Recent additions 114, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions 116, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions 117, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.