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Lorry damages the façade of Golitsyn House on the Fontanka Embankment
KAMAZ: Looks Like I Really Am the First at This Arch. The Golitsyn House on the Fontanka Embankment: in pain
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The Old Moskvoretsky Bridge and Zaryadye in 1898-99
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Birch wood panel “Mother Earth” by Sámi artist Outi Pieski in the atrium of the government building in Oslo
The 51-metre panel "Mother Earth", made of birch wood and installed in the atrium of the new government building in Oslo. The panel's creator is the Finnish-born, renowned Sámi artist Outi Pieski
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Mores · Paris
Hotel in a 1681 building on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles and its interiors
Having a look inside the once much-discussed hotel right beside the Palace of Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle Château de Versailles. The hotel's unique selling point is its location literally on the palace grounds, that is, within the boundaries of the estate, behind the gates of the palace
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Church of the Holy Trinity in Byokhovo, created by Vasily Polenov and reopened in 1985
Art must bring happiness and joy, or it is worth nothing. The Church of the Holy Trinity on the bank of the Oka, in the village of Bekhovo, was created in 1904–1906 by Vasily Polenov himself, who drew on the forms of Romanesque and Byzantine building and of the
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Sagrada Família in Barcelona nearly complete after 144 years
The bandura is nearly finished. After 144 years. Was it worth dragging things out for so long? The question remains open
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Monument in an occupied city received over 140 bullet dents and was restored in 1949
The monument to Pushkin by the sculptor Leopold Bernstam was erected in the town of Pushkin, at the intersection of Oktyabrsky Boulevard, Dvortsovaya Street and Peterburgskoye Highway, in July 1938. During the Great Patriotic War, when the town was occupied by German troops, who destroyed and damaged many structures of
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The Washington Metro is as clean as Moscow's, only the fare is $6
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Water-carrier dogs before the Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour in the town of Okhotsk, 1880s
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Kuskovo in Winter
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The 1903 wedding of Alexander Blok and Lyubov Mendeleeva in the church at Tarakanovo
Do you remember the lines "A girl was singing in a church choir of all the weary in a foreign land"? In them Blok immortalised the Church of the Archangel Michael in the village of Tarakanovo. In his memoirs he writes of it as follows: Mendeleev and my
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Winter in Moscow in the 1950s in the photographs of Vladimir Stepanov: Red Square, the Yauza embankment, Novoalekseyevskaya Street, Sokolniki, Furmanny Lane, Volkhonka, the Bolshoi Theatre, Gogolevsky Boulevard
Vladimir Stepanov Foundation