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Fyodor Bruni's "The Brazen Serpent" from the Russian Museum's collection in Saint Petersburg will be on show in Room 9 of the permanent display of the Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane from 6 November to 12 May

"The Brazen Serpent" by Fyodor Bruni, from the collection of the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, will be on show in Room 9 of the permanent display of the Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane from 6 November to 12 May. The painting was last in Moscow in 2003,

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New monument to the Governor-General of Moscow, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov, and his wife, Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna, unveiled in Klimentovsky Lane, beside Tretyakovskaya metro station

The monument depicts the grand ducal couple on the day of their wedding in 1884. Elizaveta Feodorovna wears a bridal gown with a flowing train. Sergei Alexandrovich is dressed in the uniform of the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment, which he commanded from 1887 to 1891. Sergei Romanov was killed in

A shop hall with a stucco ceiling, chandeliers, arches, freezer cases and shoppers among shelves of goods.

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Grocery store in the basement level of the high-rise on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment

On the whole, Pyaterochka fits rather well into the interiors of a palace of late socialism. The grocery shop on the lower ground floor of the high-rise on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment

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Q-ART Gallery opens “Green Light for the Underground” for the 50th anniversary of the Izmailovo exhibition

The second part of the exhibition project "Belyayevo — Izmaylovo. Nonconformism from the Q-ART Collection", entitled "Green Light for the Underground", has opened at Q-ART Gallery. It is dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the exhibition of nonconformist artists in Izmaylovo Park, held two weeks

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Swiss artists raised the Cathedral of St Gall into the air for its anniversary

I tried to imagine what it would look like if one of Russia's chief churches, St Basil's Cathedral, were made into a hot-air balloon. Swiss artists once raised one of their country's symbols into the air in just this manner: the Abbey Cathedral

Hand-coloured engraving of French drummers and horsemen entering the fortress gate of Moscow, with flames rising above the walls and towers.

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Anonymous French engraving of the French entry into Moscow in 1812

Note the appearance of Moscow's fortress walls, more reminiscent of the Western European Middle Ages, in the anonymous French engraving "The French Entering Moscow". I am especially fond of the drawbridge beside the Kremlin

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The House with the Unicorn in Nashchokinsky Lane was built by the architect Shchekotov in 1897 with Gothic motifs, but the unicorn appeared considerably later, as did the gargoyles: these decorative elements arrived on the façade after the building's reno

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Boris Turetsky, 1958

and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, 1984 GES-2, exhibition “Square and Space”

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The Last Kosmoskovsky of the Day

Two photographs in black frames on a white wall; in the right one a woman lies on a desk beside a man on the phone, with an American flag behind.

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Photograph with Trump at the Lumière Gallery stand at Cosmoscow

The Trump idea was a good one, well done! Stand of the Lumière Gallery, Cosmoscow

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Website on Alexey Uvarov, originator of the idea of the Historical Museum on Red Square

The Historical Museum has launched an online project dedicated to Count Alexei Uvarov, scholar, archaeologist, founder of the Moscow Archaeological Society, collector and patron of the arts. Uvarov was the author of the idea of creating the Historical Museum and devoted all his strength and knowledge to the successful realisation

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Igor Shelkovsky exhibition “Celestial City. The Artist’s Workshop” at MAMM until 15 December

The Multimedia Art Museum is hosting a major exhibition of Igor Shelkovsky, "Celestial City. The Artist's Studio". Together with the retrospective at the Tretyakov Gallery and MAMM, it is the largest exhibition of the master's work. Shelkovsky is one of the outstanding nonconformists, a