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An African American in Imperial Russia: the story of Frederick Bruce Thomas | OUPblog
Feb 11, 2015 - Decades before P. Diddy, Jay-Z, and Russell Simmons, there was Frederick Bruce Thomas, known later in his life as Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas -- one of the most...
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