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Restoration of the Single-Storey Wooden Terskoy-Lopatin House in Sechenovsky Lane
Restoration of the single-storey wooden Terskoy-Lopatin House in Sechenovsky Lane. The house dates from the 1820s and has fine stucco decoration characteristic of the period, together with a wrought-iron fence. The building stood empty for many years but, thank God, has survived. I hope the restoration work
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Road closures marked on the map of Moscow, Garden Ring remains open
Meanwhile, half of Moscow is closed off again. Thank goodness it's not the Garden Ring, at least
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The Melodiya Company, the country's oldest sound industry firm, will open a vinyl record plant
The Melodiya Company, the country's oldest sound industry firm, will open a vinyl record plant. The plant will be launched in Novosibirsk in spring 2025, producing 100,000 records a year, both from Melodiya's catalogue and to order
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The Telegram Brotherhood at This Hour
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A Night at the Museum
A night at the museum. Starring Adam Sandler.
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Are you asleep?
Archaeology · Books · Rome
Archaeologists find remains of Caligula's portico in the gardens of Agrippina the Elder in Rome
In Rome, on Piazza Pia, archaeologists have discovered the remains of Caligula's portico. The emperor had this portico built in the gardens of his mother, Agrippina the Elder (the granddaughter of Augustus and the daughter of Agrippa, his closest associate). The gardens occupied almost the whole of the
Art · Museums · Pop Culture · Humour
Hastings plans a contemporary art gallery that can be viewed on skis
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, whose fortune is estimated at $4.7 billion, is to open an art gallery right on a ski slope, at the 3,433-hectare Powder Mountain resort in Eden, Utah, which he recently acquired. It is planned that the pictures may be viewed without taking
Art · Moscow
The Moscow Kremlin in a 1920 painting by Leonid Brailovsky
Blue Moscow. Leonid Brailovsky, 1920
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