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By 1984 the USSR had 84 musical theatres, including 50 opera and ballet theatres and 34 theatres of musical comedy and operetta. There were theatres in every capital of the union republics, as well as in the large cultural and industrial centres: Leningrad, Novosibirsk, Perm, Irkutsk, Rostov-on-Don and
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A house of the early sixteenth century has been put on stilts in Manchester. It is interesting at last to see how old buildings can, after all, remain within modern urban development, were there only the will
Architecture · Observations · Humour
Design by Carolina Moscoso
Architecture · Moscow · Education · People
Among the Moscow state gymnasia, the Fourth stood in a class of its own. It was a classical school of the highest rank, with Latin and Greek, and with the right of direct entry to Moscow University. Its teachers were men of uncommon gifts: the physicist Kraevich, whose textbook outlived
Architecture · The East · Art · Heritage
A thoroughly epic memorial complex in Georgia. Built by Zurab Tsereteli. Possibly the best of his projects. "Sakartvelo Matiane", or "The History of Georgia", "The Chronicle of Georgia", "The Annals of Georgia": it took about 20 years to build, from 1985 to
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Mores
In 1918 the Council of People's Commissars allotted Lenin and his family a flat and a study in the Senate Palace within the Kremlin. More precisely, the layout of the third floor in the south-western part of the palace, on the side facing Senate Square, where the
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Sergey Kuznetsov has left his post as Moscow's chief architect, which he had held since 2012. After almost 14 years in the position, he intends to turn to projects of his own
Architecture · Art · Museums
Possibly one of the greatest works of the furniture-maker's art: the pair of sofas with sea deities, made in 1765 by John Linnell, one of the first English cabinet-makers. The sofas still occupy their place in the drawing room of Kedleston Hall in central England, in
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A circular locomotive depot. One of these survives in Moscow, in the Komsomolskaya district; last autumn a graphic art fair was held there
Architecture · In the Press · Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
France's new Culture Minister Catherine Pégard said on France Inter on 30 March that the Louvre renovation plan must be adjusted to take account of security concerns. It is her first public interview in her new post. The occasion was the robbery of the museum on 19 October