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On 28 July the Moscow City Court rejected the administrative claim brought by Arkhnadzor and Muscovites who joined its appeal against the mayor's office and the Moscow City Duma

The claim concerned Article 17 of the new city law on cultural heritage sites, adopted by the Moscow City Duma. The article allows sites to be struck off the list of identified monuments not on the strength of a historical and cultural appraisal, nor by decision of the relevant councils

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"Big Clay No. 4" is being removed from Bolotnaya Embankment

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Muscovites Have Grown So Pampered That They Have Filled the Drainage Canal with Matches

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A Most Interesting Photograph from the 1945 Victory Parade

A most interesting photograph from the 1945 Victory Parade. Heroes of the Soviet Union, airmen who took part in the parade. Timofey Melnik took this picture by chance. He simply saw a group of airmen and asked them to stop, but the large group of pilots would not fit into

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Notice to Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky, architect of the Hotel Ukraina, that his case has been closed for lack of any corpus delicti: in this same case he had been sentenced to 15 years in the camps

A document from the new exhibition at the Museum of Architecture

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Some buildings are entered on the protected lists, while others are quietly demolished, the features of old Moscow being ever more thoroughly wiped from the face of the city

Some buildings are entered on the protected lists, while others are quietly demolished, the features of old Moscow being ever more thoroughly wiped from the face of the city. Over the past weekend the Dukhovsky apartment house at 19 Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane was razed to the ground. The house, built

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142 architectural monuments of Moscow entered in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Sites

142 architectural monuments of Moscow have been entered in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Sites. The list now includes 3,975 historic buildings and structures. All of these sites are under state protection. Among the sites entered in the register today are the building of V.N. von

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In 1920 Alexandra Tolstaya, daughter of Leo Tolstoy, was arrested on a charge of involvement in a counter-revolutionary organisation and sentenced to three years' confinement in a concentration camp at the Novospassky Monastery in Moscow

She wrote: “My father, whose views I share, openly denounced the tsarist government and yet remained free even then. <...> I do not conceal that I am not a supporter of Bolshevism; I stated my view openly and plainly at the trial, but I have never spoken out, and

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The loveliest sight in Moscow: the gold of Orthodox crosses at sunset

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A Horse Led at Mikhail Frunze's Funeral: His Own

At the funeral of Mikhail Frunze, his horse was led in the procession. 3 November 1925, Red Square, photograph by Arkady Shaikhet. The horse became a full participant in the funeral cortège and walked behind its master's coffin together with the leaders of the Soviet state: Stalin, Zinoviev,

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The Grandson of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin with the Girls

The grandson of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin with the girls. 1902, Povarskaya Street Nikolai Alexandrovich Pushkin and his wife Nadezhda Alexeyevna Petunnikova on the right, with Madame M. N. Nikolayeva on the left. The family, with two children, emigrated after 1917 and settled in Belgium. The writer Kataev visited the poet&

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The Khludov Psalter, created in the mid-ninth century, has been recognised as a UNESCO monument and inscribed in the Memory of the World International Register

The Khludov Psalter is an outstanding work, and one of only three early monuments of Byzantine art to have survived to our day. It is kept in the collection of the State Historical Museum. Scholars believe that this unique monument of Byzantine manuscript culture was created between 843 and 867.