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1. Siberia's Primordial Colors: A journalist meets a painter in the distant outback of Siberia. They share a love for the untamed wilderness, and we learn a thing or two about the challenges of painting in the wild.; Tags: painting, art, Putorana, Siberia

2. A Song About Paintings: A popular song about paintings helps language learners pick up some artistic vocabulary.; Tags: art, painting

3. Titan of the Russian Forest: An Ivan Shishkin Art Gallery: Today marks the 185th birthday of the artist Ivan Shishkin, whose paintings evoke Russia's beauty and vastness. With a nickname like "Forest Tsar," his trees must be good.; Tags: Russia, Shishkin, painting, art, Peredvizhniki, realism; By Alice E.M. Underwood

4. Vasnetsov, Painter and Planet: An Art Gallery: July 25 is the 155th birthday of Apollinary Vasnetsov, who is both a renowned painter of medieval Russia and a fixture in the night sky.; Tags: vasnetsov, painter, painting, art, artist, russia, history; By Alice E.M. Underwood

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Notable events on this day in Russian history

1969: Soviet three-man Soyuz 5 spacecraft was launched on a mission to dock with Soyuz 4, which was launched the previous day.

1935: Grigori Zinoviev and 18 other members of the "Moscow Centre" were tried in Leningrad for their part in the assassination of Sergei Kirov, secretary of the party committee.

1925: Leon Trotsky resigned from his duties as president of the Revolutionary Military Council.

1919: Rosa Luxemburg (Communist) murdered in Berlin

1918: Red Army is established.

1897: Introduction of the Golden Ruble, in which paper rubles were backed by gold (lasted until 1914).

1891: Ilya Erenburg, writer, born (died 1967)

1850: Sofia Kovalevskaya, mathematician, born

1826: Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, writer, born (died 1889)

1582: Treaty of Jam-Zapolski was signed between Russia and Poland with Russia ceding Livonia and Estonia to Poland.

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