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On Gogolevsky Boulevard, Napoleon Plays Chess with His Uncle, Cardinal Mozef Fesch

On Gogolevsky Boulevard, Napoleon plays chess with his uncle, Cardinal Mozef Fesch. Bonaparte is losing. In fact, though, Jean-Georges Vibert's painting "Check!" is kept at the Haggin Museum in California

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The Evacuation of Museum Collections from the Western Regions of the USSR Began in the First Days of the Great Patriotic War

The evacuation of museum collections from the western regions of the USSR began in the first days of the Great Patriotic War. The rapidity of the advance and the appalling scenes of destruction visited by the Germans upon monuments of history and culture left no other choice. The museums had

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View of the Stalin skyscraper on Vosstaniya Square from Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, autumn 1980

From the book "Moscow", Volume II, 1986

Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage

Project for the repair and restoration of the Mosselprom House in Kalashny Lane, a monument of Constructivism and one of the architectural symbols of the capital, has been approved

The restoration project includes the recovery of the graphic design of the façades, executed by Rodchenko and Stepanova. The wooden windows and doors will be restored, as will the Metlakh tile flooring in the entrance hall. On the staircase, the metal railings with their wrought and cast decorative details will

Architecture · Moscow · Society · Rome · Humour

If you too sometimes feel that most Moscow architects, with all their arches, cappuccino colours and studiedly plain façades, are simply trying to copy some little-known famous building, your instinct has not failed you

Such a building exists. It is called the Palace of Italian Civilisation and was built in 1938-1940 by the architects Guerrini, La Padula and Romano, and its pediment still bears an inscription of Mussolini's words of 2 October 1935: "A people of poets, of artists, of

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This book was picked up in the street during the ruin of Moscow by Napoleon in 1812, and presented by Ivan Kulikov - [father of Orlova, the famous actress]

Nikolai [Rogozhin] From the exhibition in the Rare Books Department of the Historical Library

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Ballet Dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze Announces His Debut at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre

The People's Artist of Russia will appear on the dramatic stage for the first time, playing Louis XIV, King of France, in Yury Kvyatkovsky's production of Mikhail Bulgakov's play A Cabal of Hypocrites.

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The Hexameron Compiled by John the Exarch of Bulgaria, Pierced by a Bullet in the Library of the Historical Museum during the Revolutionary Fighting of October 1917

“The bullet exited through the lower board of the binding and lodged in the book. The bullet was removed and carried off by the piece-rate dusters in 1938.” Held in the Historical Library; the book can currently be seen at the exhibition in the Department of Rare Books

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Military chess, invented in the USSR in 1939, whose pieces include the regiment, platoon, army, division, company, battery, sapper, fortress, aviation and landmine

Military chess, invented in the USSR in 1939, whose pieces include the regiment, platoon, army, division, company, battery, sapper, fortress, aviation and landmine. And the board is divided by a river. It can be seen in the Underground Museum of Zaryadye at the exhibition “The Chess Code”

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Russian Ministry of Culture Signs State Contract for Restoration Work on Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square

The Russian Ministry of Culture has signed a state contract for restoration work on Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square. The value of the contract is 19.6 million roubles. The deadline for completing the work under the state contract is 27 August 2026.

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The Museum of the Defence of Moscow holds a Group Portrait of the Descendants of A.S. Pushkin Who Took Part in the Great Patriotic War, 1957, by the artist Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Vladimir Pereyaslavets

The Museum of the Defence of Moscow holds a Group Portrait of the Descendants of A.S. Pushkin Who Took Part in the Great Patriotic War, 1957, by the artist Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Vladimir Pereyaslavets. The portrait does not gather all of Pushkin's descendants who served in the

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Presidential adviser Yelena Yampolskaya proposes abandoning the "Azbuka" and calling it the "Bukvar"

Well then, I propose that we return to the ancient Primer of Karion Istomin, hieromonk of the Chudov Monastery in Moscow, writer and court poet, who produced the first illustrated Russian alphabet book. From 1679 Karion Istomin headed the Moscow Printing House. To his pen belongs the illustrated Primer, which