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Licharewa's works included the following studies: "Thought of the
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Likharev, was a major general. Mother, Maria Gruszecka, daughter of an engineering colonel, a graduate of the Pavlovsky Institute in St. Petersburg (1867), came from a Polish family. Zofia received a thorough home education. As the daughter of a major general, she
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October 1944, she was evacuated to Prussia due to the advancing Red Army at the end of
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about the need to organize a State Museum and the need to protect art monuments. In 1920, she participated in the expedition organized by
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International High School. In 1915 she returned to St. Petersburg (by then known as
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