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A photograph by Alexandr Kadochnikov that has gone viral: the dome of the Paveletskaya metro pavilion huddles in the embrace of the building at 43/16, Building 1, Novokuznetskaya

A photograph by Alexandr Kadochnikov that has gone viral: the dome of the Paveletskaya metro pavilion huddles in the embrace of the building at 43/16, Building 1, Novokuznetskaya. The pavilion itself occupies the ground floors of a house that was completed four years after the station was built. Most

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In Suzdal, the historic mosaic "Christ Enthroned" is promised restoration in 2021 on the façade of the Dmitry Pozharsky memorial chapel of 1885, built from public donations at the Monastery of Saint Euthymius and destroyed in 1933

In Suzdal, the historic mosaic "Christ Enthroned" is promised restoration in 2021 on the façade of the Dmitry Pozharsky memorial chapel of 1885, built from public donations at the Monastery of Saint Euthymius and destroyed in 1933. When the chapel was rebuilt in 2009, the image of the

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Volokolamsk Kremlin with the 15th-century Ascension Cathedral and an unfriendly reception at the museum

Visited the town of Volokolamsk, one of the oldest in the Moscow Region, with its ancient kremlin on a 17-metre rise on the left bank of the little River Gorodnya, where the year of foundation (in fact, of first mention) is laid out on the slope: 1136. Inside the

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Good news from the Museum of Architecture: there are no plans to close the permanent exhibition

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Towards the close of the day, in the manner of a "farewell tour", I looked in on the opening of the Rosizo exhibition "Trin-trava" at the Turgenev-Botkin mansion in Petroverigsky Lane

Towards the close of the day, in the manner of a "farewell tour", I looked in on the opening of the Rosizo exhibition "Trin-trava" at the Turgenev-Botkin mansion in Petroverigsky Lane. There are some interesting interpretations of the Russian style, but on the whole

Architecture · Moscow · Mores

A 1950s stove door in the basement of the Leform shop on Povarskaya Street

A 1950s stove door in the basement of the Leform shop on Povarskaya Street. The house, built in 1952, where Sergey Mikhalkov lived with Natalia Konchalovskaya, was, like thousands of other houses of the time, centrally heated, though from boiler houses of its own, unlike the thousands of houses that

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Residents of the thirteen-storey Academy of Sciences of the USSR staff block on Dmitry Ulyanov Street urge attention to the construction of a metro line right beneath their buildings

Residents of the thirteen-storey Academy of Sciences of the USSR staff block on Dmitry Ulyanov Street urge attention to the construction of a metro line right beneath their buildings. This particular building, dating from 1957 and executed in the style of late Stalinist Empire, is famous as the home

Architecture · The East · Observations · Heritage

"A Turkish fortress, far from first-class but politically most pernicious, Anapa demanded of the Russian state such a number of military campaigns, by army and fleet alike, as no other enemy fortress, even of stronger construction, ever called forth…

"A Turkish fortress, far from first-class but politically most pernicious, Anapa demanded of the Russian state such a number of military campaigns, by army and fleet alike, as no other enemy fortress, even of stronger construction, ever called forth. Some four times it was blown up until completely

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Two rather stale but dispiriting items of news: open letters from professional communities in defence of the restoration sector

The first is addressed to the Minister of Culture, Olga Lyubimova, and to the presidential adviser on culture, Vladimir Tolstoy. In it, specialists in the preservation of cultural heritage report (though this is common knowledge anyway) the catastrophic, critical state of the sector, which they describe as "in essence

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Having visited Kolomna, it would be foolish not to see the place where the Moskva flows into the Oka, all the more so as it lies practically within the town limits

Having visited Kolomna, it would be foolish not to see the place where the Moskva flows into the Oka, all the more so as it lies practically within the town limits. The surroundings are very picturesque. If you go, the road will take you past the Old Golutvin Monastery, founded

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Kolomna Kremlin, the height of its walls, its defence and the surviving towers

The Kolomna Kremlin is one of the foremost Russian fortresses, beautiful, vast, and impressive in its scale and grandeur. It is no accident that it won the competition when Russia-1 chose the country's principal kremlin. In appearance it somewhat resembles the Moscow one, hence the legend of

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Kolomna's Streets in Faces and Fables: A Most Agreeable Piece of Street Art in the Historic Centre of Kolomna

Kolomna's Streets in Faces and Fables: a most agreeable piece of street art in the historic centre of Kolomna. A note for the negligent devotees of Sobyanin