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Would love to know the painter of the two illustrations, particularly the indelible one of the mystified Russian boys in their schoolroom. In any case, thanks for this enlightening ‘lesoon.’

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Kate, here's your answer.  The picture was painted by this fellow:

https://www.wikiart.org/en/nikolay-bogdanov-belsky

Thanks for asking .... and the typo has been corrected in the title... but not before it went out to 1600 plus readers... sigh...LESSON Learned. Re-read more than once…

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Oh dear... I didn't check that one last time before I hit publish. Thanks, Kate, for the "lesoon"... now fixed...

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Thanks for re-issuing that math lesson. Interesting and helpful, to say the least.

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