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Encyclopaedia Britannica | On This Day
December 04
Wassily Kandinsky: Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons)

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Wassily Kandinsky

Russian-born artist
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Ivan the Terrible

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Ivan the Terrible proclaimed grand prince of Moscow
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