CORE 101: Symbols and Conceptual Systems (Fall 2000)
MODERN RUSSIAN ART
Russian Art of the Late 19th and 20th Centuries
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Introduction: Russian Society and Culture in the Late 17th
and 18th C. |
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Russian Artists and Writers in Western Europe in the Early 19th Century |
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Ethics and Esthetics: The Realist Movement in Late 19th C. Russian Art |
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Neo-Nationalism and the Art Colonies of Abramtsevo and Talashkino |
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Symbolism and the Work of Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910) |
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The St. Petersburg World of Art Group |
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The Moscow Blue Rose Group |
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Vasilii Kandinsky (1866-1944) and the Evolution Towards Abstract Art |
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The Formation of Neo-Primitivism: Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962), Mikhail Larionov (1881-1964), and their Colleagues |
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Russian Cubo-Futurism and Parallels with France and Italy |
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Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) and Suprematism |
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Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953) and the Notion of Construction |
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Abstract Ladies: The Important Role of Women in the Avant-Garde Movement of the 1910s |
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The Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 and Art and Politics |
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Constructivism in Soviet Russia and the West |
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El Lissitzky (1890-1941) and the New Design Movement |
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Pavel Filonov (1883-1941): Defining Russian Expressionism |
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The Move Back Towards a More Classical Art in the Late 1920s |
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Developments in Moscow and Leningrad Since 1945 |
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The New Wave |
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| Topic 02 Russian Artists and Writers in Western Europe in the Early 19th Century |
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| Orest Kiprensky, Portrait of Davydov (1809) |
| Orest Kiprensky, Self-portrait (1820s) |
| Orest Kiprensky, Portrait of Pushkin (1827) |
| Orest Kiprensky, Portrait of Avdulina (1830s) |
| Vasilii Tropinin, Portrait of Pushkin (1827) |
| Karl Briullov, The Last Day of Pompeii (1833) |
| Karl Briullov, Horsewoman (1832) |
| Karl Briullov, Self-portrait (1849) |
| Alexander Ivanov, Appearance of Christ to the People (1837-57) |
| Alexander Ivanov, Appearance of Christ to the People Detail 1 |
| Alexander Ivanov, Appearance of Christ to the People Detail 2 |
| Alexander Ivanov, Appearance of Christ to the People Detail 3 |
| Alexander Ivanov, Walking on the Waters (1840s-50s) |
| Alexei Venetsianov, Morning of a Landowner (1823) |
| Alexei Venetsianov, Plowing. Spring (1820s) |
| Alexei Venetsianov, Harvesting. Summer (1820s) |
| Pavel Fedotov, Capricious Bride (1842) |
| Pavel Fedotov, Aristocrat's Breakfast (1840s) |
| Pavel Fedotov, Newly Decorated (1840s) |
| Pavel Fedotov, Major's Betrothal (1848) |
| Pavel Fedotov, Gamblers (1853) |
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| Topic 03 Ethics and Esthetics: the Realist Movement in Late 19th C. Russian Art |
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| Vasilii Perov, Easter Procession (1861) |
| Vasilii Perov, Refectory (1865-76) |
| Vasilii Perov, Drowned Woman (1867) |
| Vasilii Perov, Portrait of Dostoevsky (1872) |
| Ilia Repin, Self-portrait (1887) |
| Ilia Repin, Volga Boatmen (1873) |
| Ilia Repin, Volga Boatmen Detail |
| Ilia Repin, Religious Procession (1880-83) |
| Ilia Repin, Religious Procession Detail 1 |
| Ilia Repin, Religious Procession Detail 2 |
| Ilia Repin, They Did Not Expect Him (1884) |
| Ilia Repin, Ivan the Terrible and His Son (1885) |
| Ilia Repin, Ivan the Terrible and His Son Detail |
| Ilia Repin, Portrait of Musorgsky (1881) |
| Ilia Repin, Portrait of Tolstoi (1901) |
| Vasilii Vereshchagin, Apotheosis of War (1871-72) |
| Ivan Shishkin, Rye Field (1878) |
| Arkhip Kuindzhi, Birch Grove (1879) |
| Arkhip Kuindzhi, Moonlit Night on Dneiper River (1880) |
| Arkhip Kuindzhi, Birch Grove (1901) |
| Arkhip Kuindzhi, Sunset (1905-06) |
| Isaak Levitan, Spring Flood (1897) |
| Isaak Levitan, LakeLake (1899) |
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| Topic 04 Neo-Nationalism and the Art Colonies of Abramtsevo and Talashkino |
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| Mikhail Vrubel, Portrait of Mamontov (1897) |
| Photograph of Church at Abramtsevo (1883) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, Stove at Abramtsevo (1890s) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, Headboard for Bed at Abramtsevo (1890s) |
| Vasnetsov, Design for opera produced at Abramtsevo (1880s) |
| Polenova, Furniture designs at Abramtsevo (1890s) |
| Polenova, Illustration to fairy-tale "The Firebird" (early 1890s) |
| Bilibin, Illustration to fairy-tale "The Firebird" (1899) |
| Photograph of Princess Tenisheva (early 1900s) |
| Photograph of Room at Talashkino (early 1900s) |
| "Kovsh," or Wooden bowl, designed at Talashkino (early 1900s) |
| Cradle designed by Princess Tenisheva (ca. 1900) |
| Candelabra designed by Princess Tenisheva (ca. 1900) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, Balalaika designs (1890s) |
| Enamel Plate designed by Princess Tenisheva (1905) |
| Photograph of Church at Talashkino (1903) |
| Easter Egg designed by Faberge (1897) |
| Photograph (1) of Riabushinsky's Villa designed by Shekhtel (1900s) |
| Photograph (2) of Riabushinsky's Villa designed by Shekhtel (1900s) |
| Photograph (3) of Riabushinsky's Villa designed by Shekhtel (1900s) |
| Photograph (4) of Riabushinsky's Villa designed by Shekhtel (1900s) |
| Photograph (5) of Riabushinsky's Villa designed by Shekhtel (1900s) |
| Photograph (6) of Riabushinsky's Villa designed by Shekhtel (1900s) |
| Photograph (7) of Riabushinsky's Villa designed by Shekhtel (1900s) |
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| Topic 05 Symbolism and the Work of Mikhail Vrubel |
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| Mikhail Vrubel, Self-portrait (1904) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, Portrait of Male Nurse (1905) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, Betrothal of Mary and Joseph (ca 1883) |
Mikhail Vrubel, Angel with Incense Burner and Candle. Design for the Cathedral
of St. Vladimir, Kiev (1887) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, Illustration to The Demon by Mikhail Lermontov (1890-91) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, The Demon (Detail) (1890) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, The Demon Downcast (1902) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, The Demon Downcast (Detail) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, The Prophet (1898) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, Faust and Mephistofeles (1896) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, The Bogatyr (1898) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, The Bogatyr (Detail) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, The God Pan (1889) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, Lilacs (1900) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, Portrait of the Artist's Son (1902) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, Pearl (1904) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, Portrait of Zabela-Vrubel, Vrubel's wife (1904) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, Portrait of the poet Valerii Briusov (1906) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, The Saint (1906) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, Girl Sitting before Persian Rug (1886) |
| Mikhail Vrubel, Campanulas (1904) |
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| Topic 06 The St. Petersburg World of Art Group |
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| Serov, Portrait of Diaghilev (1905) |
| Photograph of Diaghilev (New York, 1916) |
| Photograph of Diaghilev (1929) |
| Photograph of Goncharova, Massine, Bakst, Larionov and Stravinsky (Lausanne, 1915) |
| Roerich, Church on the River Nereditsa (1899) |
| Benois, The King's Walk (1906) |
| Benois, Chinese Pavilion (1906) |
| Benois, L'Orangerie (1906) |
| Benois, Bath of the Marquise (1906) |
| Somov, Lady in Pink (1903) |
| Somov, Echo of Time Past (1903) |
| Somov, Ridiculed Kiss (1908) |
| Somov, Skating Rink (1915) |
| Somov, Harlequinade (1914) |
| Somov, Book cover for Cor Ardens (1907) |
| Somov, Illustration for Le Livre de la Marquise (1908) |
| Somov, Illustration for Le Livre de la Marquise (1918) |
| Bakst, Costume design for Shekherazada (1910) |
| Bakst, Costume design for Shekherazada (1910) |
| Bakst, Set design for Shekherazada (1910) |
| Bakst, Set design for Shekherazada (1910) |
| Bakst, Set design for Shekherazada (1910) |
| Dobuzhinsky, 1905 (1905) |
| Kustodiev, Entry into Moscow (1905) |
| Grzhebin, Domestic and Foreign Policy (1906) |
| Grzhebin, Domestic and Foreign Policy (inverted) |
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| Topic 07 The Moscow Blue Rose Group |
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| Borisov-Musatov, Tapestry (1901) |
| Borisov-Musatov, Walk at Evening (1903) |
| Borisov-Musatov, Nut Tree (1905) |
| Kuznetsov, Blue Fountain (1905) |
| Kuznetsov, Birth of Spring (1906) |
| Kuznetsov, Maternal Love (1906) |
| Utkin, Untitled (1) (1907) |
| Utkin, Untitled (2) (1907) |
| Sudeikin, Pastorale (1906) |
| Sudeikin, Love (1906) |
| Kuznetsov, Visions of a Midwife (1907-08) |
| Kuznetsov, Holiday (1907-08) |
| Kuznetsov, Isle of the Consumptives (1907) |
| Boklin, Isle of the Dead (1880s) |
| Cuirlionis, Sonata of the Sun. Andante (1907) |
| Cuirlionis, Fugue (1908) |
| Cuirlionis, Sorrow (1905-06) |
| Cuirlionis, Day (ca 1908) |
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| Topic 08 Vasilii Kandinsky (1866-1944) and the Evolution towards Abstract Art |
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| Kandinsky, Farewell (1903) |
| Kandinsky, Stage Design (1903) |
| Bilibin, Illustration to The Firebird (1899) |
| Kandinsky, Ladies in Crinolines (1909) |
| Somov, Evening (1900-02) |
| Kandinsky, Landscape (1909) |
| Larionov, Sunset after Rain (1908) |
| Kandinsky, Murnau (1908) |
| Kandinsky, St. George and the Dragon (19??) |
| Russian Icon, St. George and the Dragon (XV century) |
| Kandinsky, Composition No. 2 (1910) |
| Kandinsky, Illustration to his essay, On the Spiritual in Art (1911) |
| Kandinsky, Improvisation (1910) |
| Kandinsky, Picture with Red Spot (1914) |
| Kandinsky, Black Circle (1924) |
| Kandinsky, Red Square (1917) |
| Kandinsky, White Oval (1919) |
| El Lissitzky, Proun (1926?) |
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| Topic 09 The Formation of Neo-Primitivism: Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962), Mikhail Larionov (1881-1964) and Their Colleagues |
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| Larionov, Walk in a Provincial Town (1907-09) |
| Gauguin, Woman Holding Flowers (1899) |
| Larionov, Gypsy in Tiraspol (1906-07) |
| Pirosmanashvili, Signboard for drinks (early 1900s) |
| Pirosmanashvili, Pigs (1900s) |
| Larionov, Relaxing Soldier (1909) |
| Lubok, (XVIII century) |
| Larionov, Officer at the Hairdresser (1909) |
| Larionov, Boulevard Venus (1911-12) |
| Larionov, Portrait of Tatlin (1911-12) |
| Larionov, Rayonist Sausage and Mackerel (1912) |
| Larionov, Red Rayonism (1913) |
| Larionov, Blue Rayonism, or Portrait of a Fool (1912-13) |
| Goncharova, Gardening (1908) |
| Goncharova, Phoenix (1911) |
| Goncharova, Electric Machine (Dynamo Machine) (1913) |
| Goncharova, Forest (1913) |
| Goncharova, Cats (1913) |
| Larionov, Two Designs for Histoires Naturelles (1916) |
| Larionov, First design for Histoires Naturelles detail |
| Larionov, Second design for Histoires Naturelles detail |
| Goncharova, Set Design for The Golden Cockerel (1914) |
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| Topic 11 Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) and Suprematism |
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| Photograph of Malevich (Kursk, 1900s) |
| Photograph of Malevich |
| Malevich, Relaxing. High Society in Top Hats (1905) |
| Malevich, Woman in Childbirth (1906) |
| Malevich, Man on the Boulevard (1910) |
| Malevich, Haycutting (1909-10) |
| Malevich, Morning in the Country after a Snowstorm (1911-12) |
| Malevich, Simultaneous Death of a Man in an Airplane and on the Railroad (1913) |
| Malevich, Englishman in Moscow (1913) |
| Malevich, Woman at an Advertisement Kiosk (1914) |
| Malevich, Set design for the Futurist opera Victory over the Sun (1913) |
| Malevich, Costume design for the Futurist opera Victory over the Sun (1913) |
| Malevich, Black Square (1915) |
| Photograph of the "0.10" exhibition (Petrograd, 1915) |
| Malevich, Suprematism (1915) |
| Malevich, Suprematism (with Eight Red Rectangles) (1915) |
| Malevich, Suprematism (Supremus No. 58. Yellow and Black) (1916) |
| Malevich, Suprematism (White on White) (1918) |
| Malevich, Suprematism ("Dissolution of Sensation") (1917-18) |
| Malevich, Book Cover for N. N. Punin's "First Cycle of Lectures" (1920) |
| Porcelain inspired by Malevich (ca. 1923) |
| Porcelain plate inspired by Malevich (ca. 1923) |
| Malevich, Arkhitekton (ca. 1923) |
| Malevich, Girl with a Comb (1932) |
| Malevich, Red Cavalry (1930) |
| Malevich, Portrait of Natal'ia (wife of Malevich) (1933) |
| Malevich, Sportsmen (1928-32) |
| Photograph of Malevich's tomb in Nemchinovka |
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| Topic 12 Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953) and the Notion of Construction |
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| Photograph of Tatlin (1913) |
| Tatlin, Carnations (1908) |
| Tatlin, Nude (1910) |
| Tatlin, Costume design for the play Emperor Maximilian and His Son Adolf (1911) |
| Tatlin, Nude (1913) |
| Tatlin, Sailor (1912) |
| Picasso, Guitar (1912) |
| Kliun, Landscape Rushing Past (1913) |
| Tatlin, Painterly relief (1914) |
| Tatlin, Counter-relief (1916) |
| Tatlin, Corner relief (1917) |
| Tatlin, Corner relief (1917) |
| Tatlin, Model of Monument to the Third (Communist) International (1919-20) |
| Tatlin, Design for Monument to the Third (Communist) International (1919-20) |
| Butinone, Christ Disputing with Doctors (1500s) |
| Tatlin, Designs for a coat, a suit and a stove (1924) |
| Tatlin, Chair (1927) |
| Photograph of Tatlin (1932) |
| Tatlin, Design for glider (1932) |
| Glider designed by Tatlin (1932) |
| Tatlin, Stage design (1943) |
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| Topic 15 Constructivism in Soviet Russia and the West |
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| Tatlin, Counter-relief (1916) |
| Puni, Suprematist Sculpture (1915) |
| Rodchenko, Surface Spheres (1918) |
| Rodchenko, Spatial Construction (1) (1919) |
| Rodchenko, Spatial Construction
(2) (1919) |
| Rodchenko, Spatial Construction (1921) |
| Rodchenko, Hanging Construction (1921) |
| Stenberg, Construction (1919) |
| Stenberg, Railroad Station (1905) |
| Rodchenko, Design for Pacifiers (1923) |
Rodchenko, Design for Workers' Club for the Soviet pavilion at the Intl. Exhibition
of Industrial and Decorative Arts (Paris, 1925) |
| Rodchenko, Portrait of Rodchenko's mother (1920s) |
| Rodchenko, Portrait of Maiakovsky (1924) |
| Rodchenko, Pine Trees (1927) |
| Rodchenko, Shukhov Tower (1929) |
| Rodchenko, House on Miasnitskaia Street (1925) |
| Rodchenko, Pioneer-Trumpeter (1930) |
| Rodchenko, Dive (1936) |
| Exter, Costume design for Aelita (1924) |
| Exter, Movie design for Aelita (1924) |
| Popova, Guitar (1917) |
| Popova, Architectonic Painting (1918) |
| Popova, Poster design for The Magnificent Cuckold (1922) |
| Stepanova, Design for football clothes (1923) |
| Popova, Textile design (1) (1923) |
| Popova, Textile design (2) (1923) |
| Popova, Dress design (1923-24) |
| Popova, Dress design (1923) |
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| Topic 16 El Lissitzky (1890-1941) and the New Design Movement |
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| Lissitzky, Self-Portrait (1924) |
| Lissitzky, Scheme of Perspectives () |
| Lissitzky, Tatlin at Work on the Monument to the Third International (1919-20) |
| Lissitzky, Proun 23, no. 6 (1919) |
| Lissitzky, Proun 99 (1924) |
| Lissitzky, Proun from the Kestner Portfolio (Hanover, 1923) |
| Magritte, Sense of Reality (1963) |
| Lissitzky, Illustration to children's book, Tale of Two Squares, dedication page (1922) |
| Lissitzky, Illustration to children's book, Tale of Two Squares, title page (1922) |
| Lissitzky, Illustration to children's book, Tale of Two Squares, page 1 (1922) |
| Lissitzky, Illustration to children's book, Tale of Two Squares, page 2 (1922) |
| Lissitzky, Illustration to children's book, Tale of Two Squares, page 3 (1922) |
| Lissitzky, Illustration to children's book, Tale of Two Squares, page 4 (1922) |
| Lissitzky, Illustration to children's book, Tale of Two Squares, page 5 (1922) |
| Lissitzky, Illustration to children's book, Tale of Two Squares, page 6 (1922) |
| Lissitzky, Illustration to children's book, Tale of Two Squares, page 7 (1922) |
| Lissitzky, Illustration to children's book, Tale of Two Squares, page 8 (1922) |
| Lissitzky, Illustration to children's book, Tale of Two Squares, back cover (1922) |
| Lissitzky, Design for so-called "Proun" room (1923) |
| Lissitzky, Design for an exhibition room, Dresden (1926) |
| Lissitzky, Design for the Abstract Cabinet (exhibition room), Hanover (1927) (1) |
| Lissitzky, Design for the Abstract Cabinet (exhibition room), Hanover (1927) (2) |
| Lissitzky, Design for the Abstract Cabinet (exhibition room), Hanover (1927) (3) |
| Lissitzky, Design for the Abstract Cabinet (exhibition room), Hanover (1927) (4) |
| Lissitzky, Three-dimensional window display for typewriter ribbon (1924) |
| Lissitzky, Design for skyscraper, Moscow (1924) |
| Lissitzky, Design for apartment (1934) |
| Lissitzky, Propaganda photograph (1938) |
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| Topic 17 Pavel Filonov (1883-1941): Defining Russian Expressionism |
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| Filonov, The Hero and His Fate (1909-10) |
| Filonov, Two Boys (1909-10) |
| Filonov, Feast of Kings (1911-12) |
| Filonov, Beasts. Illustration to a transrational poem by Filonov (1913) |
| Filonov, Illustration to a book of Futurist poetry by Khlebnikov (1914) |
| Filonov, East and West (1914) |
| Filonov, Heads (1910) |
| Bosch, Christ Bearing the Cross (ca. 1515) |
| Filonov, Entry into the Prosperity of the World (1919-20) |
| Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights (ca. 1510) |
| Filonov, Head (1924) |
| Filonov, Heads (1924) |
| Filonov, Glory to Thee. Fresco for Cathedral of Annunciation, 15th c. () |
| Filonov, Head and Thumb (1925-26) |
| Filonov, Untitled [1] (1930) |
| Filonov, Untitled [2] (1930) |
| Filonov, Petroglyphs in Siberia, 2000 B.C. () |
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