Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society

On 28 July the Moscow City Court rejected the administrative claim brought by Arkhnadzor and Muscovites who joined its appeal against the mayor's office and the Moscow City Duma

The claim concerned Article 17 of the new city law on cultural heritage sites, adopted by the Moscow City Duma. The article allows sites to be struck off the list of identified monuments not on the strength of a historical and cultural appraisal, nor by decision of the relevant councils

Archive · Heritage · Society

Insurgents destroy the eight-metre statue of Stalin during the 1956 Hungarian Uprising

The shattered figure of Stalin during the Hungarian Uprising, 23 October - 10 November 1956. The insurgent crowd brought down the eight-metre statue of Stalin erected for his seventieth birthday, leaving only the boots, into which a Hungarian flag was planted. The disfigured head lay for a long time in

Heritage · Society

Trump withdraws the United States from UNESCO again, effective at the end of 2026

Donald Trump is to withdraw the United States from UNESCO for a second time. The decision will take effect at the end of 2026. According to State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce, “continued participation in UNESCO is not in the national interest of the United States.” In 2017, during Trump'

Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society

Dukhovskoy apartment house of 1904 demolished in Moscow's Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane

Some buildings are entered on the protected lists, while others are quietly demolished, the features of old Moscow being ever more thoroughly wiped from the face of the city. Over the past weekend the Dukhovsky apartment house at 19 Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane was razed to the ground. The house, built

Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society

142 architectural monuments of Moscow entered in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Sites

142 architectural monuments of Moscow have been entered in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Sites. The list now includes 3,975 historic buildings and structures. All of these sites are under state protection. Among the sites entered in the register today are the building of V.N. von

NB! · Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Saint Petersburg

The iconostasis of the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra is under restoration

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In Cleveland, an abandoned bus is to become a museum of immigration

Faith · Heritage · Society

Law bans depicting places of worship without religious symbols in media, advertising and emblems

A Law on the Protection of Religious Symbols Has Been Adopted. The law amends the federal law "On Freedom of Conscience and on Religious Associations" and prohibits the use of images of religious buildings and other objects bearing religious symbols with those symbols removed, in the media, in

Archaeology · Art · Museums · Heritage

Ancient mosaic taken from Italy during the war returned to Pompeii Archaeological Park

Even 80 years after the end of the Second World War, stolen works of art continue to return to their rightful owners. Among the recent high-profile cases of restitution is the return to the granddaughters of the Viennese collector Adalbert Parlagi of Claude Monet's painting "The

Archaeology · Museums · Heritage

Fine gold Roman helmets of the fourth century from the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Serbia

Fine gold Roman helmets of the fourth century from the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Serbia. These are the so-called Berkasovo-Jarak helmets. Two similar gold pieces were found in one place. They probably belong to a hoard assembled by a barbarian warrior after combing a battlefield. The

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The Khludov Psalter, a ninth-century Byzantine manuscript in the State Historical Museum

The Khludov Psalter, created in the mid-ninth century, has been recognised as a UNESCO monument and inscribed in the Memory of the World International Register. The Khludov Psalter is an outstanding work, and one of only three early monuments of Byzantine art to have survived to our day. It

Archaeology · Monarchies · Heritage

Excavations at Pompeii from Domenico Fontana to a cap of 20,000 visitors

The first excavations at the site of Pompeii were begun by Charles III of Bourbon, King of Naples and Sicily, in April 1748. In truth, the place had been discovered by chance as early as the end of the sixteenth century by the architect Domenico Fontana, while digging the Sarno