Word: russian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students indulge in such ferocious tricks on new pupils that death has several times been the result. It was an occurrence of this kind that caused the atelier of Paul Delaroche to be closed when that master went to Italy, taking his pupil Gerome with him. The rising Russian painter, Basile Vereschagin, on entering the studio of Picot to learn the rudiments of his art, refused to be made the victim of the rough treatment to which it was proposed to subject him. This consisted in attaching the new-comer's head downwards to a ladder, and then blowing tobacco...
According to the official report, 268 persons, including many foreign travellers, lost their lives by the burning of the circus in Berditscheff, Russian Poland, on Saturday...
...circus building in Berditscheff, Russian Poland, was destroyed by fire on Saturday, and three hundred persons perished in the flames...
...panic prevails on the Berlin bourse, growing out of articles recently published in the German newspapers concerning the echeloning of the Russian army on the German frontier...
...recent reports concerning an Austro-Russian war have not been confirmed...