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Destruction of Novgorod during the War, Sophia Cathedral and Godunov's Chandelier
During the war Novgorod was almost destroyed: the Nazis wrecked the white-stone monasteries and churches, monuments of the 11th and 12th centuries. One of the first stone structures in Rus', the Cathedral of St Sophia in the Novgorod Kremlin, was disfigured beyond recognition: its interior was reduced to
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The Screaming Sculpture from Jacques Cœur's Palace in Bourges (15th Century) Bears a Striking Resemblance to the Figure in Munch's Painting
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The monument to Alexander III on the Prechistenskaya Embankment took 12 years to build, and 2.5 million roubles were raised for it by subscription
The monument to Alexander III on the Prechistenskaya Embankment took 12 years to build, and 2.5 million roubles were raised for it by subscription. It was pulled down six years after its unveiling, in the summer of 1918
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The Church of Elijah the Prophet Is Still Standing
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The clock on the bell tower of the Nativity Cathedral in Suzdal, for instance
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Russian window surrounds on an Italian garden pavilion at the Villa Garibaldi in Palermo, designed by the great nineteenth-century architect Giovanni Battista Filippo Basile
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A few kilometres from Southwold Jack stands another similar "clockmaker" or bell-ringer, at Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh
A few kilometres from Southwold Jack stands another similar "clockmaker" or bell-ringer, at Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh. Fine armour, one must say.
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The Immaculate Vestibule of St Augustine's Church in Mainz
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Found on Google Street View the Deer Park I wrote about yesterday
Found on Google Street View the Deer Park I wrote about yesterday. It is hard to imagine that in the eighteenth century this place was such a den of iniquity. A couple of years ago the building was on sale for 6.5 million euros
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The Lion's Head on the Roof of the Parthenon
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Jacques Cœur, industrialist and financier to Charles VII, peers out of a false window in his astonishing mansion at Bourges
Jacques Cœur, industrialist and financier to Charles VII, peers out of a false window in his astonishing mansion at Bourges. Cœur minted gold écus and kept the king's mistress, Agnès Sorel, supplied with treasures