March draws to a close, 63 days remain until summer
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 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”?
📌 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 open the way to development even in the protected zones of the Kremlin?
- The last wing 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.
📌 How a quotation from War and Peace about lawmakers without education became prophetic for present-day Russia.
📌 Moscow in the 1820s: aristocratic spiritualism. Governor Dolgorukov's pact with a dead friend: three appearances of a ghost before his death.
📌 12% African blood. On the racial laws of the United States in the last century.
📌 Find 10 differences between a Soviet propaganda poster and a painting by Rockwell. Parallels between the propaganda symbols of the two superpowers
