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Thinking about the past

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Nov 10, 2022
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Photo of Central Moscow at night by Platon Matakaev

I lie awake in the night and think ‘Everybody who lived in the seventeenth century is dead.’ And by that I mean everybody – it’s not as if there’s one or two people still around who remember some of it, who can supply a little local colour to the accounts we inherit (‘Shakespeare used to absolutely love…

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