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Visualisations of Moscow with the 415-metre Palace of Soviets, had it been built
"In Moscow, near the Kremlin, the Palace of Soviets is being built. It will be the tallest structure on earth, higher than the Egyptian pyramids, the Eiffel Tower and the American skyscrapers. The Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the parliament of the only truly democratic country in the world,
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The Fersman Mineralogical Museum in Moscow and its collection dating from 1716
Shall we go to a museum? One of the oldest museum collections in Russia, dating from the time of Peter the Great, is, incidentally, the collection of minerals, which in 1716 became the core of the Mineral Cabinet of the Kunstkamera and in 1836 was formally transformed into a separate
Archive · Architecture · Moscow
Lenin's wooden mausoleum in a 1928 photograph and the eagles on the Kremlin towers before the stars
In this August 1928 photograph Lenin's Mausoleum is still wooden, though very like the later stone version, also designed by the architect Alexey Shchusev. The drawing is by Isaak Brodsky, from 1924, and flowers still stand by the Mausoleum. Note the crowned double-headed eagles on the Kremlin
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Retro-style address plaques on Moscow buildings, including the Helikon-Opera building
Here and there in Moscow, retro-style address plates have begun to appear on buildings. Take, for example, the sign on the Helikon-Opera building, modelled on a Soviet street sign. It looks very pleasing
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Eeckhout's “Musical Party” under flies, the blistered “David and Abigail” of van Diepenbeeck, a hole in Bialynitsky-Birulya's canvas and other sad facts about the collection of the Moscow sanatorium Uzkoye, in the Bitsa Forest, are described in a caustic…
Eeckhout's “Musical Party” under flies, the blistered “David and Abigail” of van Diepenbeeck, a hole in Bialynitsky-Birulya's canvas and other sad facts about the collection of the Moscow sanatorium Uzkoye, in the Bitsa Forest, are described in a caustic article in Komsomolskaya Pravda, which for
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The Arbatskaya Metro Station Pavilion by Polozkov and Zenkevich Survives Inside the General Staff Complex
It turns out that this luxurious pavilion of Moscow's Arbatskaya metro station, by the architects Polozkov and Zenkevich, still exists; it is merely closed to the gaze of outsiders, standing hemmed in by the General Staff building. Photograph of 1953
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Francisco Infante's Red Square lighting project at the Garage Museum exhibition
Francisco Infante's plan for the illumination of Red Square. Among much else, it contains a most intriguing proposal: a dynamic lighting scheme for the Kremlin wall, in which a white light would "march" along the wall itself in step with the honour guard. Regrettably, the idea
Architecture · Observations · Society · Paris · Humour
Open-air urinals installed on Place de la République in Paris and criticism of Anne Hidalgo
I would like to send a retching emoji, but I am genuinely impressed by the creative potential of Anne Hidalgo, tireless disfigurer of the French capital. Open-air urinals have been installed on the Place de la République, which prompts the thought that it might be renamed La Répu de
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This is a church in the village of Krokhino, near Beloye Lake on the River Sheksna
This is a church in the village of Krokhino, near Beloye Lake on the River Sheksna. In 1961 it was flooded during the creation of the Sheksna Reservoir. Funds are now being raised for the restoration and conservation of the remains of the church, which rises above a small islet.
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In Soviet times the coat of arms of the USSR was raised on the dome of the tower of the Nizhny Novgorod office of the State Bank, while all the imperial decor connected with the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov, which richly adorned the whole bui
In Soviet times the coat of arms of the USSR was raised on the dome of the tower of the Nizhny Novgorod office of the State Bank, while all the imperial decor connected with the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov, which richly adorned the whole building, including the
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A memorial marker at Yasnaya Polyana on the site of the house laid down by Prince Volkonsky, in which his grandson, Leo Tolstoy, would be born
A memorial marker at Yasnaya Polyana on the site of the house laid down by Prince Volkonsky, in which his grandson, Leo Tolstoy, would be born. Like the rebuilt estate of Bald Hills in «War and Peace», the house was built after the prince's death, and somewhat more