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RUSSIA - 1902: Russian members of the Literary Wednesday Club. From left to right, sitting: author Leonid N. Andreev (1871-1919), singer Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938), author and nobel prize laureate Iwan Bunin (1870-1938), dramatist Sergei Alexandrovich Naidenov (1868-1922), author Nikolai Dimitrievich Teleshov (1867-1957). Standing (from left to right): K.P.Pyutnitsky und author Alexei Maximovich Gorky (1868-1936. Photograph. 1902.

RUSSIA - 1902: Russian members of the Literary Wednesday Club. From left to right, sitting: author Leonid N. Andreev (1871-1919), singer Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938), author and nobel prize laureate Iwan Bunin (1870-1938), dramatist Sergei Alexandrovich Naidenov (1868-1922), author Nikolai Dimitrievich Teleshov (1867-1957). Standing (from left to right): K.P.Pyutnitsky und author Alexei Maximovich Gorky (1868-1936. Photograph. 1902.
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