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The Russian variety of bagatelle.

VARIETY SHOW
A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
RUSSIAN CHURCH
The established church of the Russian empire. It forms a portion, by far the largest, of the Eastern Church and is governed by the Holy Synod. The czar is the head of the church, but he has never claimed the right of deciding questions of theology
VARIETY
1. The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness. Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. South. The variety of colors depends upon the composition of light.
RUSSIAN
Of or pertaining to Russia, its inhabitants, or language. -- n.
RUSSIANIZE
To make Russian, or more or less like the Russians; as, to Russianize the Poles.
BAGATELLE
1. A trifle; a thing of no importance. Rich trifles, serious bagatelles. Prior. 2. A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player.
PRUSSIAN
Of or pertaining to Prussia. -- n.
SUBVARIETY
A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.