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Andropov's Flat at 26 Kutuzovsky Prospekt

Andropov's flat at 26 Kutuzovsky Prospekt. The photographs were taken in 1984, after the General Secretary's death. A luxury interior from an era when the profession of interior designer, to all appearances, did not exist in the country

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The Moscow Metro Map as an Octopus

The Moscow Metro map as an octopus. The installation is a gigantic model of the metropolitan railway. It was set up in the 1930s in Okhotny Ryad

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I was leafing through an album of photographs of 1930s Moscow and came upon a picture of Theatre Square decked out for May Day with outline models of tractors and ploughs

I was leafing through an album of photographs of 1930s Moscow and came upon a picture of Theatre Square decked out for May Day with outline models of tractors and ploughs. You know, for all the naivety and artlessness of such agitational dressing of urban spaces, it looks far better

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Leo Tolstoy learned to ride a bicycle at the age of 67

It is very strange why I am drawn to do this. Yevgeny Ivanovich tried to dissuade me and was distressed that I ride, but I feel no shame. On the contrary, I feel that I do not care what people think, and it is simply sinless, and gives me a

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Pavements Washed with Shampoo: Now in Moscow Too

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Sobyanin: Moscow to Have More Beach Places Than Sochi

Our river will grow cleaner and cleaner with every year. I hope that soon it will be possible to swim in the Moskva River along its entire length

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The 1996 Address of the President of Russia Was Called "The Russia for Which We Are Responsible"

It contained the following words: "Tsarist Russia, burdened with the weight of its own historical problems, was unable...", while "the communist project failed the test".

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Napoleon in the Kremlin

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How to Tell That You Are Looking at a Sculpture by Alexander Burganov

📌 A column, or the capital of a column, is present 📌 There is a human hand 📌 In place of a head, some object or other

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Population of London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Saint Petersburg and Moscow in 1800, 1830, 1871 and 1900

Moscow: 250,000 - 305,000 - 601,000 - 1,175,000 Saint Petersburg: 220,000 - 442,000 - 668,000 - 1,418,000

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"The Handshake of Abraham Lincoln and Alexander II": a sculpture installed in the park before the Burganov House Museum on Sivtsev Vrazhek

Although this meeting never took place in reality, many note the similarity between these two rulers, and the former US Congressman James Symington called them "friends who were never destined to meet, but who were kindred spirits." The monument was created in 2011 and first shown at the

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Casket for Catherine II's Charters to the City of Tver, in Gilt Bronze

The casket was intended for the safekeeping of important founding documents and charters granted for the administration of the governorates of the All-Russian Empire". The Tver Viceroyalty, established on 25 November 1775, became the first administrative-territorial unit of the new pattern in the Russian Empire. The casket