Moscow - The Parnassian (Page 41)

Infographic of the tallest buildings on every continent, with a world map and a ranking of five skyscrapers for each region.

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All five tallest skyscrapers in Europe stand in Moscow and Saint Petersburg

The tallest buildings in the world. Russia has all five of the highest skyscrapers in Europe: the Lakhta Centre in Saint Petersburg, and the Federation Tower, the Oko, the Neva Towers and the Mercury City Tower in Moscow

Flowers on the bridge railing, with a Moscow Kremlin tower and palace, the Ivan the Great Bell Tower and a cloudy sky behind.

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Flowers decorate the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge in Moscow with the Kremlin in view

What a beauty! Well done, the city services! They have decked the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge with flowers, and it looks magnificent, never mind Paris

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"And having so taken counsel, they came together at Moscow…": The first mention of Moscow in the Patriarchal (Nikon) Chronicle for 1147, from a manuscript presumably compiled at the Trinity-Sergius Monastery from the mid-14th century

"In the year 6655. Grand Prince Yury of Suzdal, son of Vladimir Monomakh, grandson of Vsevolod, great-grandson of Yaroslav, great-great-grandson of Vladimir the Great, gathered an host, and went and took the town of Novy Torg, and along the river Msta laid waste many districts; and

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Neil Tennant learned the Russian alphabet at 14, and West End Girls traces Lenin's route

The Pet Shop Boys in Red Square, Moscow, in 1993, during the filming of the video for Go West. The lads have loved Russia for a long time. Neil Tennant, the duo's singer, has said that he learned the Russian alphabet at the age of 14, simply out

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The State Coat of Arms: the Double-Headed Eagle and the State Seal in the Manuscript "Titulyarnik" or "The Great Sovereign's Book" of 1672

The State Coat of Arms: the Double-Headed Eagle and the State Seal in the manuscript book "Titulyarnik" or "The Great Sovereign's Book" of 1672. Pen, watercolours, shell gold. Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts. In this historical and diplomatic reference work, presented to

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Moscow of the Seventeenth Century, Apollinary Vasnetsov

The Moscow River with a bright green patch of algae along the embankment under a stormy sky.

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Patches of algae bloom in the Moscow River and their possible causes

I have many questions about the Tiber and the Seine, as ever; the Moskva, by comparison, is of course very clean, but even it has such pockets of "blooming". I suppose the accumulation of algae may be connected with the high solar activity this summer, with temperatures and

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And what is this novelty on Kaluzhskaya Square?

And what is this novelty on Kaluzhskaya Square? Some floating fir trees beside Lenin. Interesting symbolism, something between Giuseppe Penone's sculpture in the courtyard of the Hermitage and René Morin's work with the floating orange tree in its shell in Tel Aviv, but I should not

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Handwritten charter of the Council of Constantinople on the founding of the Moscow Patriarchate, on parchment with the lead seal of Jeremias II, Patriarch of Constantinople, May 1590

The text is as follows: "Jeremias, by the mercy of God Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch. Whereas the pious and peaceable Autocrat, Tsar of all the land of Russia, … and lord of other Orthodox Christians, Feodor Ivanovich, … has sought a dignity from us by the election

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Spiritual testament of Prince Dmitry Ivanovich on the division of lands among his sons

The Spiritual Testament, that is, the Will of Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscow, Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts. "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, behold, I, the sinful and unworthy servant of God, Dmitry Ivanovich, write this spiritual

Stage design sketch: crossing beams of light on a dark background with ladders, and figures in wide white costumes and masks dancing in the foreground.

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Works by Alexandra Exter at the exhibition “Girlfriends” for Varvara Stepanova’s anniversary at the Pushkin Museum

Works by Alexandra Exter, one of the key women artists of Russian Constructivism, at the exhibition "Friends. For the Anniversary of Varvara Stepanova", which opened yesterday in the Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

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Recognised?

Recognised? This is "Rozanova Dancing". The artist Varvara Stepanova has drawn the artist Olga Rozanova. A little masterpiece from the exhibition "Friends. For the Anniversary of Varvara Stepanova" at the Pushkin Museum, Gallery of European and American Art