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Russkiy Salon: Select Favorites and Newly Revealed Works (Minneapolis, MN), From February 02, 2009 to August 30, 2009.
Postage Stamps: Messengers of the Soviet Future (Minneapolis, MN), From March 07, 2009 to September 20, 2009.
The Tsars and the East: Gifts from Turkey and Iran in the Moscow Kremlin (Washington, DC), From May 09, 2009 to September 13, 2009.
Windows into Heaven (Santa Fe, NM), From July 06, 2009 to July 11, 2009.
A New Approach to Parenting Adopted Children (Milpitas, CA), From July 19, 2009 to July 19, 2009.
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Notable events on this day in Russian history
1773: Gavrill Derzhavin, poet and teacher, born.
1897: Famous meeting of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko where MKhAT is conceived.
1917: July Days insurrection began in protest to Russia's continued involvement in WWI; it lasted 3 days
1957: The 'Anti-Party Group' was ousted by Khrushchev following a plenary CC session
1974: Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 14 was launched from Baikonur. During the 15-day mission, cosmonauts Pavel Popovich and Yuri Artyukhin linked with space station Salyut 3.
1996: Yeltsin wins reelection bid to Russian presidency
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