President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has often reveled in the majesty of Russian culture, particularly literary giants like Ivan Turgenev, whose country mansion the Russian state recently renovated as a showcase of national pride.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin makes an entry in the Honoured Visitor Book as he visit the Ivan Turgenev Museum on Ostozhenka Street in Moscow on November 10, 2018. - The bicentenary of the writer's birth is marked in 2018.
