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A Muscovite Woman Choosing a Birch Broom at the Central Market in 1958

The Central Moscow Market stood at 15 Tsvetnoy Boulevard and at that time still operated out of wooden pavilions, before the construction of the city's first permanent covered market building. The multi-storey market was built to a design by the architect Shulmeister in 1959, although the wooden

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At the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment, a Touching Exhibition, "Flowers

At the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment, a touching exhibition, "Flowers. A Symbol of Beauty", is running without much fuss, devoted entirely to the presence of flowers in Russian art. It opens with Kramskoy's "Bouquet of Flowers. Phloxes" of 1884, the only pure flower

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In October 1944 the head of the Ancient East department of the Pushkin Museum submitted an official memorandum to the museum's director about a business trip to the town of Sukhoy Log in the Sverdlovsk region

In October 1944 the head of the Ancient East department of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts submitted an official memorandum to the museum's director about a business trip to the town of Sukhoy Log in the Sverdlovsk region. Vsevolod Pavlov, a specialist in Ancient Egypt who had

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Chief Accountant of the University Appointed Acting Rector of GITIS

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Lenin's Study at the Lenin Museum-Estate at Gorki

Lenin's study at the Lenin Museum-Estate at Gorki. The handsomeness of the furnishings owes everything to the fact that they survive from the estate's pre-revolutionary mistress, Zinaida Morozova, with the exception of the clothed office desk delivered specially for Ilyich

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OURS: The Turbulent Growth of Socialist Construction, Tens of Millions of Collective Farmers, the Energy and Enthusiasm of Millions, the Creative Enthusiasm of the Masses

THEIRS: Crisis, unemployment, hunger, destitution and the preparation of war against the USSR. And mind you don't mix them up! A two-part poster by the artists Gleb Grigoryev and Boris Iordansky on the not yet demolished Iverskaya or Voskresenskiye Gates in the wall of Kitay-gorod. Photograph

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Fet begged to “drive the living boat off with a single push”, to catch the fleeting before it vanishes

Fet begged to “drive the living boat off with a single push”, to catch the fleeting before it vanishes. The monthly digest has a more modest task, though the same one: to hold on to what matters before the flood of news washes it away. Here is the main news

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Quotations from Great Men

Quotations from Great Men. The Lenin Library

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I continue to keep watch over my favourite building site in Moscow, the pedestrian bridge on Bolotnaya Embankment

I continue to keep watch over my favourite building site in Moscow, the pedestrian bridge on Bolotnaya Embankment. The bridge is taking on convincing outlines, and soon we shall be testing the new promenade route

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I thought the Pushkin Museum's previous logo was a failure, but now they have replaced it with something even more abstract: just four columns, although the portico of the main building rests on six

And yet they could simply have admitted the mistake of 2024 and gone back to the old logo, perfectly recognisable, informative and successful

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Ground collapse in the courtyard of the Scriabin Museum

I hope it can all be put right without any serious consequences

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A couple of days ago I posted a reel about the sad, dilapidated state of the wonderful openwork cast-iron Demidov fence in front of the Pedagogical Library in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane, and literally today word came that restoration work has begun there…

A couple of days ago I posted a reel about the sad, dilapidated state of the wonderful openwork cast-iron Demidov fence in front of the Pedagogical Library in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane, and literally today word came that restoration work has begun on the spot. I do not yet know