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Catherine the Great and Her White Hands at the Entrance to the Grand Palace at Tsaritsyno
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Why does the Tupolev on the monument on Akademika Tupoleva Embankment near Kursky Station look like the inventor of paper clips rather than aircraft?
Architecture · Books · Monarchies · Society · Saint Petersburg
In 1922 a quatrain by Demyan Bedny was carved on the pedestal of the monument to Alexander III:
My son and my father were executed in their lifetime, And I have reaped the lot of posthumous ignominy: I stand here as a cast-iron scarecrow for a country That has cast off for ever the yoke of autocracy. Literal translation
NB! · Architecture · London · Moscow · Observations
Would someone please make the Moscow Metro a diagram like the one at London's Piccadilly Circus station!
Archive · Architecture · Geography · Education · Society
Ancient and Soviet Seven Wonders of the World in the Children's Magazine “Yozh” of 1935
The Seven Wonders of the World in Antiquity:. The Pyramid of Cheops The Gardens of Semiramis The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus The Tomb of Mausolus The Statue of Zeus The Colossus of Rhodes The Pharos Lighthouse. The Seven Wonders of the World under Soviet Power: The Dnieper Hydroelectric Station
Architecture · Art · Cinema · London · Humour
Sculptor Alexander Sederbach created the figure of Diogenes for Lacock Abbey in 1755
Does the statue of Gandalf in an English abbey ring no bells? In fact, this is how in 1755 the sculptor Alexander Cederbach envisaged the figure of Diogenes of Sinope for the adornment of Lacock Abbey in the county of Wiltshire in England. The lantern in the sage's
Architecture · Observations · Paris
Of course, the ugly 210-metre Montparnasse skyscraper is not in fact all that close to the 330-metre Eiffel Tower, and one has to work rather hard to get the two buildings into the same frame, but all the same, looking at these photographs, it is easy to
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Venice, Piazza San Marco
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Long Exposure, Florence, Piazza della Libertà, 1880
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
Installation of oak roof beams at Notre-Dame de Paris, delivered from Brittany along the Seine
The long-awaited assembly of the timber roof structure of Notre-Dame de Paris. Beams from 200-year-old Breton oaks were delivered along the Seine, by the same route as during the original construction
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