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One of the heroes of the novel by Yuri Trifonov's "House on the embankment" is a schoolboy named Anton Ovchinnikov. He, like some of the other characters, there was a very real prototype. His name was Lev Fedotov. After his death he will be called a prophet and a psychic, supposedly managed to predict accurately in his diary the events of the great Patriotic war.

We are talking about photographs from the penal colony № 3, Irkutsk region, made July 3, 2018

From the first glance at the mausoleum, which still rests the leader of the world proletariat, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov-Lenin, it becomes clear that its form is alien to Russian architecture. Meanwhile it was built by Russian architect Alexey Viktorovich Shchusev, who before the revolution was in the service of the Holy Synod, built temples and designed the iconostasis of the Church of the assumption of the virgin in Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.[C-BLOCK]

"Freedom comes naked, throwing flowers heart", perhaps these lines of Velimir Khlebnikov was inspired by the sculptor Nikolai Andreev, the author of the monument of Freedom, which was opened in 1919. The monument, depicting Liberty in the form of women half-dressed, ambiguously perceived by his contemporaries, and was destroyed a few months before the beginning of the great Patriotic war. About the reasons for the demolition of the monument to the Soviet (now Tver) square is still under debate.