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# March draws to a close, 63 days remain until summer
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/mart-podkhodit-k-kontsu-do-leta-ostalos-63-dnia/
- Published: 2025-03-31T07:22:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:30:40.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Architecture, Moscow, Observations, Heritage, Society

March draws to a close, 63 days remain until summer. Let us recall together the most interesting pieces on the channel over the past month:

📌 A photo chronicle of Moscow in the pictures of an American spy. Unique colour [shots](https://theparnassian.com/v-chulane-stargo-doma-naiden-arkhiv-snimkov-stalinskoi-moskvy-i-drugikh-gorodov-sssr-sdelannykh-vyslannym-iz-strany-za-shpionazh-sotrudnikom-amerikanskogo-posolstva/?ref=theparnassian.com) of the capital in the 1950s.

📌 Plywood night bombers against the Luftwaffe. The feat of the 46th Women's Aviation Regiment: 23,672 sorties, 3,000 tonnes of bombs and 23 Heroes of the Soviet Union. Why did the Germans nickname them [“night witches”?](https://theparnassian.com/gruppovoi-portret-liotchits-geroin-46-ogo-gvardeiskogo-nochnogo-bombardirovochnogo-aviatsionnogo-tamanskogo-krasnoznamionnogo-i-ordena-suvorova-polka-khudozhnik-sergei-bocharov-1985-god-2/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 Moscow architecture news, which brought both bad tidings and good:

\- From 1 March, 70,000 monuments in Russia lost their protection. How did the [new decree](https://theparnassian.com/na-nashikh-glazakh-unichtozhaetsia-vsia-sistema-gosudarstvennoi-okhrany-pamiatnikov-istorii-i-kultury/?ref=theparnassian.com) open the way to development even in the protected zones of the Kremlin?

\- The [last wing](https://t.me/captainpaleo/20951?ref=theparnassian.com) of the Rostopchin estate has been demolished: a building that survived the fire of 1812 and was described by Stendhal.

\- In Moscow the Rostokino Aqueduct is being restored. The only surviving eighteenth-century aqueduct in Russia will now become [a pedestrian attraction.](https://theparnassian.com/v-moskve-nachalis-raboty-po-restavratsii-rostokinskogo-akveduka/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 How a quotation from *War and Peace* about lawmakers without education became [prophetic](https://theparnassian.com/komissiia-zakonov-sushchestvuet-sto-piatdesiat-let-stoit-milliony-i-nichego-ne-sdelala-2/?ref=theparnassian.com) for present-day Russia.

📌 Moscow in the 1820s: [aristocratic spiritualism.](https://theparnassian.com/moskovskii-voennyi-gubernator-iurii-vladimirovich-dolgorukov-byl-bolshim-drugom-krupnogo-velmozhi-stepana-stepanovicha-apraksina-v-proshlom-byvshego-smolenskim-voennym-gubernatorom-i-iz-2/?ref=theparnassian.com) Governor Dolgorukov's pact with a dead friend: three appearances of a ghost before his death.

📌 12% African blood. On the racial [laws](https://theparnassian.com/amerikanskii-pisatel-charlz-chestnatt-1858-1932-schitalsia-oktoronom-na-eto-ukazyval-osobyi-zakon-odnoi-kapli-krovi/?ref=theparnassian.com) of the United States in the last century.

📌 Find 10 differences between a Soviet propaganda poster and a painting by Rockwell. [Parallels](https://theparnassian.com/eta-kartina-normana-rokvella-vygliadit-tak-slovno-on-izobrazhaet-stroitelia-kommunizma-kak-oni-sami-sebia-videli/?ref=theparnassian.com) between the propaganda symbols of the two superpowers