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The people of Russia, having freed themselves from the shackles of Soviet puritanism, are now to get their first museum of erotica, to open soon in St. Petersburg.(The Week)(Brief Article)

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* The people of Russia, having freed themselves from the shackles of Soviet puritanism, are now to get their first museum of erotica, to open soon in St. Petersburg. Star attraction in the museum will be the pickled penis of Gregory Rasputin, the "mad monk" of late-Czarist Russia. Rasputin was rumored to have hypnotic power over women, and it is said that he seduced several noble Russian ladies, including possibly the Czarina. Boasts the director of this new institution: "Having this exhibit, we can stop ...

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