The death of one man is a   tragedy. The death   of millions is a   statistic...   Joseph Stalin                    MEMORABILIA                                  SOVIET UNION                                  SECURITY                                  ABOUT US                                  CONTACTS & ITEM SUBSCRIPTION Important!!! All items, we are selling, were bought firsthand - directly from their owners, in countrysides of Lithuania (former USSR member-country, now - EU member-country). Each item is original, genuine, authentic, has it's own unique history. In most of the listings we are selling not only an item, but also information about it's history, got from it's direct owner (sometimes verified by photographic evidences) and a guaranty, that it is original, genuine, authentic.
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.   V. I. Lenin		Kosta Khetagurov (1859 - 1906) Picture(s) of this listing subject(s). This (these) is (are) particular - unique picture(s) - made by our selves. Item(s) on this (these) picture(s) is(are) actual item(s), that the buyer will receive.       Add us to: Favorite Stores  Subscribe for: Store newsletter RSS feeds            Authenticity Certificate Shipping & Combining Payment Buyer protection   Stamp Authenticity Since 1939 till 1990 Lithuania suffered 3 occupations: 1 German (1941-1944) and 2 Soviet (1939-1941, 1944-1990), one of which lasted 46 years. In WWII occupations were based on violent battles between Germans and Russians. These historical events left a lot of stuff behind them selves. Almost every family in Lithuania has something left, realated to USSR history in their forgotten drawers. So we are just traveling around lithuanian countrysides and collecting this memorabilia. Item is original, genuine, authentic, unique, not a copy or replica - has 2-12 decades of it's own unique history. Stamp Story Konstantin (Kosta) Khetagati (Ossetic: Хетæгкаты Къоста; 15 October [O.S. 3 October] 1859 — 1 April [O.S. 19 March] 1906) was a national poet of the Ossetian people who is generally regarded as the founder of the Ossetic literature. He was also a talented painter and a notable public benefactor. He is often known by the Russian version of his name, Kosta [Levanovich] Khetagurov (Russian: Коста́ (Константин) Лева́нович Хетагу́ров) Khetagurov was born in the village of Nir in what is now the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. He studied at the Stavropol Gymnasium from 1871 to 1881, and entered the Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1881, but had to abandon his studies due to financial constraint in 1885. Back in his native Ossetia, he became a prominent poet, whose poems composed in Ossetic quickly spread throughout Ossetian towns and villages in an oral form. He also published a number of poems, stories and articles in the Russian-language newspapers Severny Kavkaz (edited by himself, 1893-1902), and Kazbek. His paintings also gained in notable popularity, one of them depicting Saint Nino, a 4th-century Chrisitan baptizer of the Georgians, was particularly welcomed by the Georgian society. Due to his criticism of the Imperial Russian government he was twice exiled from his motherland from 1891 to 1896 and again from 1899 to 1902. The last exile significantly shattered the poet's health and deprived him of the ability to continue his creative and social activities. Khetagurov died shortly afterwards in Karachay in 1906.