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    Exception and rule

    Sep 09, 2022 3 minutes
    By Bridget Kendall

    HISTORY

    Anyone who has wandered through Russia’s national museums, leafed through books of Russian art or watched some of Eisenstein’s cinematic masterpieces will know how prominent portraits of its princes and tsars are among the country’s iconography.

    There is the imagined baptism of Grand Prince Vladimir, whose conversion to Christianity in the 10th century was – in Russian eyes – the foundation stone of Russian Orthodoxy and the birth of the

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