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The Church of Saint Paraskeva Pyatnitsa on Pyatnitskaya Street, demolished in 1935
The Church of Saint Paraskeva Pyatnitsa on Pyatnitskaya Street, demolished in 1935. The street took its name from this church. The stone buildings of the church were erected between the 16th and 18th centuries. On this very spot now stands the round vestibule of the Novokuznetskaya metro station.
Moscow · Observations · Society · Society Pages
Yesterday the National Award for Cultural Managers was presented for the first time at the Theatre of Nations
Yesterday the National Award for Cultural Managers was presented for the first time at the Theatre of Nations. If you remember, we have followed this story from the very beginning, from the moment the award was first proposed. We watched the idea take concrete shape, and now we have seen
Aristocracy · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
So this is the sorry state of the rear façade of the once-famous palace of Count Kirill Grigoryevich Razumovsky, built in the 1780s
So this is the sorry state of the rear façade of the once-famous palace of Count Kirill Grigoryevich Razumovsky, built in the 1780s. To a design by Bazhenov, or by Kazakov, or by someone else altogether. The view of the opposite façade, facing Vozdvizhenka, is blocked by the Kremlin
NB! · Moscow · Observations · Humour
Wouldn't it be nice to be watching Don Quixote at the Theatre of Nations instead of all this
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
According to Arkhnadzor, more than 25 historic buildings were demolished in the capital last year
According to Arkhnadzor, more than 25 historic buildings were demolished in the capital last year. Among them were examples of Constructivism, eighteenth-century structures and monuments of federal significance: The House of Culture of the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers in Novosushchevsky Lane Construction of the building began in the
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The Demolition of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, 5 December 1931
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · The East · Art · Museums
In the Where to Go rubric: a new selection of Moscow exhibitions
📌 26 March: opening of the exhibition “Family: My Heritage” on the Benois and Morozov dynasties, until 30 April Museum of Moscow 📌 26 March: opening of the exhibition “Art in the Russian Backwoods: The Oriental Collection of Dmitry Burylin”, until 24 May Museum of Oriental Art 📌 The exhibition “Formulae of Eternity”
Coming Up · Books · Moscow
The Bolshoi Theatre Encyclopaedia to Be Published in Summer 2026
The publication is timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Bolshoi Theatre, which will be celebrated in 2026. The encyclopaedia will comprise three volumes. The first is devoted to the theatre's conductors, directors, designers, choreographers and chorus masters. The second and third volumes cover the theatre&
Archive · Books · Moscow · Mores · People
Tyutcheva is beginning to please me quietly...
Tyutcheva is beginning to please me quietly... Little by little, but she has taken hold of me seriously and wholly So Leo Tolstoy recalls Ekaterina Tyutcheva in his diary. In my alternative historical imagination I sometimes wonder what would have happened had Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy in fact married Ekaterina Tyutcheva,
Art · Moscow · Heritage · Society
Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in overalls and a sarafan in the colours of the Russian tricolour, sewn by the Monolit textile association in 1998
The decision to dress the sculpture was taken to draw attention to the preservation of a monument that in the 1990s had fallen into an extremely lamentable, dilapidated state. It is reported that in those years one of the petty officials was ready to sell the monument for scrap metal
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Chuck Norris and Vladimir Zhirinovsky in Heaven
Photograph taken in Moscow in 1997