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On May 17, 1960, then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev jeopardized the fragile compromise between the Soviet Union and Western countries on the burning Berlin issue by abruptly leaving the Paris summit on the post-war regulation before it could even get off the ground.…

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Peter Carl Faberge

Peter Carl Faberge was a world famous master jeweler and head of the ‘House of Faberge’ in Imperial Russia in the waning days of the Russian Empire.

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