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Specialists correct the tilt of the pedestals of late Empire style gates

Restorers in the Neskuchny Garden Rescue the Ceremonial Gates of the Alexandrinsky Palace - "Seasons" With time, the pedestals for the statues had leaned badly towards one another and looked alarming. The gates, created in the Late Empire style, are an architectural masterpiece of the mid-nineteenth century, and

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The signature cross on the tombstone of that very René Lalique at Père Lachaise cemetery

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Plastic windows installed in the Church of Cosmas and Damian in Kaluga, built in 1794

Plastic windows have been installed in the church of Cosmas and Damian in Kaluga, built in 1794. A very beautiful church in a very lamentable state now conforms perfectly to the spirit of the age and offers a picturesque example of our attitude to a heritage that has not yet

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Three stages of one cake: scroll through the photos from the latest to the earliest and you get, quite literally, the restoration chronology of the federally protected heritage site in whose shape the cake was made

In the year of its centenary, the Library of Foreign Literature has at last opened the restored late eighteenth-century house at Nikoloyamskaya, 6. The whole official upper crust of culture turned out for the occasion: the minister, deputies, heads of federal agencies, directors of institutions. Even Vladimir Medinsky sent

Black-and-white photograph of a two-storey building with a pediment on a snowy square, with two passers-by near the fence.

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Yury Pankratov on the demolition of the historic Sobachya Ploshchadka buildings during the construction of Kalinin Avenue in the 1960s

Sweeping away the mouldy vulgarity of Houses that huddle hunchbacked, Work proceeds at full throttle In the district of the Arbat... Yury Pankratov on the demolition of the old buildings of the historic Sobachya Ploshchadka complex in the 1960s, when Kalinin Avenue, now Novy Arbat, was driven through

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When You Look Back and Realise That the Past Cannot Be Changed

A fragment of a bench from the church of Staffarda Abbey, not far from Turin. The wooden sculpture is housed in the museum of Palazzo Madama in Turin itself, while the Abbey, meanwhile, shows a distinct shortage of period furnishings, so that local historians and art historians are seriously murmuring

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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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Petroglyphs of the White Sea and Lake Onega inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List

Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the inscription of the Karelian petroglyphs on the UNESCO list:. For the first time, monuments of Russian rock art have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List: at the extended 44th session of the World Heritage Committee, which is

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Today is a very important day for Russian archaeology, historical science and culture: at long last the petroglyphs of Karelia, thousands of Neolithic rock carvings on the shores of the White Sea and Lake Onega, have been recognised as a UNESCO World Heri

Today is a very important day for Russian archaeology, historical science and culture: at long last the petroglyphs of Karelia, thousands of Neolithic rock carvings on the shores of the White Sea and Lake Onega, have been recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage site, among the most astonishing in the

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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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The dead rat found by Henry Cole and the founding of Britain's National Archives

If they call you a paper-pusher (literally, an "office rat"), don't be upset. After all, there was once a rat with a fondness for paperwork who became a co-founder of the National Archives of the United Kingdom. When the public figure, inventor and all-