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The Church of the Saviour at Nereditsa stood on territory held by our troops, on the line of defence, and for several months the Nazis shelled it from the other bank of the Volkhov, from artillery positions in the Yuriev Monastery
The Church of the Saviour at Nereditsa stood on territory held by our troops, on the line of defence, and for several months the Nazis shelled it from the other bank of the Volkhov, from artillery positions in the Yuriev Monastery. V. F. Antonov, the church's long-standing
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The Church of the Saviour on Nereditsa, 1910 and 1942
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St Sophia Cathedral in 1911 and in 1942
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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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Novgorod in Wartime
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German officers and museum director Mates looted the museums of Krasnodar and Taganrog
Talk of wartime vandalism is often reduced to a few simple psychological regularities, which tie together the humble origins of the common soldier, the hardships of army life, the constant fear of death and the sight of war's horrors, all leading to dehumanisation. It is often said that
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The 1928 Roerich Pact and German looting of Soviet cultural property
Destroyed by human error and restored by human hope. In international law, the history of the protection of cultural property begins in the nineteenth century: the Lieber Code, the Brussels Conference, the Hague Conventions and Declarations and, finally, the Roerich Pact, or Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific
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A series of notes on artworks and cultural treasures lost in the war, for Victory Day
For some time I have been studying the subject of cultural losses in the war years, and for Victory Day I have decided to prepare a series of notes on the treasures of art and culture that our country has lost. Over the weekend I shall share the stories that
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American soldiers at Neuschwanstein, where 21,000 works of art were brought from France
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Packaged like a good box of chocolates
Packaged like a good box of chocolates. The royal crown of France, made for the seven-year-old Louis XV, crowned in 1722. At the end of the nineteenth century some of its stones were replaced with bits of glass and sold
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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