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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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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1994: The European Union and Russia signed a landmark accord in Corfu, Greece, designed to stabilize the ex-Soviet power and bring it ever closer to its former rivals.

1985: Natalia Solzhenitsyn, wife of exiled Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, became a United States citizen in Rutland, Vermont.

1948: Berlin Blockade began. Joseph Stalin blocked all ground and water access, as well as cut electricity to the Western sector. Within a few days, the Berlin Airlift began. United States planes dropped up to 13,000 tons of goods per day for the next 10 month

1877: Aleksei Remizov, writer, born (died 1957)

1812: Napoleon invaded Russia. Ironically, almost three years to the day (on June 22, 1815), Napoleon abdicated after his defeat at Waterloo.

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