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Verkhoturye

Verkhoturye is a historic town and the administrative center of Verkhotursky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located in the middle Ural Mountains on the left bank of the Tura River north of Yekaterinburg. Population: 7,815 Verkhoturye is a historic town and the administrative center of...

—November 8, 1951, Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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) was a Russia

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n artist and painter. He made a lot of book artwork and was presented at various exhibitions from 1906, both in the former Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 (Moscow

Moscow

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, Leningrad) and abroad (Paris

Paris

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, New York

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, Boston

Boston

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Among Belkin's notable scores are those for The Decameron

The Decameron

The Decameron, also called Prince Galehaut is a 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio, told as a frame story encompassing 100 tales by ten young people....

, The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized in March–July 1844. Set in the 17th century, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard...

, A Hero of Our Time

A Hero of Our Time

A Hero of Our Time is a novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839 and revised in 1841. It is an example of the superfluous man novel, noted for its compelling Byronic hero Pechorin and for the beautiful descriptions of the Caucasus...

and The Knight in the Panther's Skin

The Knight in the Panther's Skin

The Knight in the Panther's Skin is an epic poem, consisting of over 1600 shairi quatrains, was written in the 12th century by the Georgian epic-poet Shota Rustaveli, who was a Prince and Treasurer at the royal court of Queen Tamar of Georgia. The Knight in the Panther's Skin is often seen as...

. He also worked for famous publishing house Academia

Academia (publishing house)

Academia was a Soviet publishing house prior to fusion with Goslitizdat. The house employed many eminent Russian graphic artists and issued over one thousand books during its existence...

. Belkin was a close friend of Alexey Tolstoy and Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova

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