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The bell tower of the Strastnoy Monastery, demolished in 1937, was used in the Soviet years for anti-religious propaganda and for advertising Communist ideas: the monastery had been closed since 1919 and housed the Central Anti-Religious Museum. The monastery's first gate church was built by order
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The “Annushka” tram on Malaya Dmitrovka in 1896. Straight ahead is the Cathedral of the Passion Icon of the Mother of God, part of the Strastnoy Monastery, demolished in 1937. On the left is the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki, built in 1652 and surviving to
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Art at the entrance of a building has long ceased to be a rarity: the golden “Prometheus” has stood in Rockefeller Center since 1934, Picasso's work in Chicago's Daley Plaza since 1967, and there is no need to look far afield: Savitsky's famous sculpture
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Restoration of the Great Cathedral of the Don Icon of the Mother of God, dating from the late seventeenth century, in the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow is in full swing. The entire interior of the cathedral is under scaffolding, including the unique seven-tier carved iconostasis of the time of
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Patience to all who are waiting! Congratulations to all who have stood out their turn in the queue! I cannot help rejoicing that Orthodox Rus' is awakening! They might have put on a train and carried the relic across the whole country, so that people in different cities could
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Some call it the petition pillar, to which petitions, that is, requests to the Tsar, were brought, and on which royal decrees were posted. I do not care for this version. Firstly, the Tsardom of Muscovy had a Petitions Office (Chelobitny Prikaz); secondly, what nonsense it is to carry complaints
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At the AZ/ART Contemporary Art Centre at Maroseyka, 11/4c1, a joint exhibition of the AZ Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery is under way. Until 29 November it shows 43 sculptures of the late 1950s and the 1960s from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the AZ Museum and
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The State Museum of the East, at 12A Nikitsky Boulevard, presents an exhibition devoted to the artistic legacy of the Volkov-Rybnikov dynasty. The display runs until 8 November and comprises some one hundred and fifty works of painting, graphic art and sculpture by three generations of the family. The
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The legendary openwork cast-iron fence of the Demidov town estate in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane regains its former appearance thanks to the efforts of the "Remember Everything" Labour Commune and the volunteer organisation "Ecological and Cultural Association Sloboda". A magnificent pattern emerges from beneath the accumulated
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Anna Garnova is altogether too beautiful for a mayor's wife. But for a governor's lady or a chamberlain's consort she would do very nicely. The scene after Khlestakov's proposal, with Andrey Mezhulis and Evdokia Kareva, from Yevgeny Marchelli's The Government
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This case has been dragging on since May, and I deliberately refrained from writing about it. In the first place, it seemed to me that for many years now everyone with even the slightest connection to art collecting and the life of Russian auctions has known that our market is