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 * ... that Russian painter Alexandre Jacovleff (pictured) participated in trans-Saharan and trans-Asian (from Syria to China) expeditions organized by the French car manufacturer Citroën?
 * ... that the obedience to orders and dogged resistance of the Russian infantry at the Battle of Golymin in 1806 greatly impressed Napoleon and his army?
 * ... that Boris Grekov was a Soviet historian who set out to debunk Mikhail Grushevsky's theory that Kievan Rus was a predecessor state of Ukraine rather than of Russia and Belarus?

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