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The writer Sergey Durylin, Pasternak's teacher, built a house on a foundation of stones from a chapel of the Moscow Kremlin, with the help of his friend the architect Shchusev, who designed Lenin's Mausoleum

The writer Sergey Durylin, Pasternak's teacher, built a house on a foundation of stones from a chapel of the Moscow Kremlin, with the help of his friend the architect Shchusev, who designed Lenin's Mausoleum. Later a mail kukuruznik (a small Soviet biplane) crashed onto this house.

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Second Moscow Conference of October 1944 on the War with Japan, the Balkans and Poland

Stalin and Churchill at the Second Moscow Conference in October 1944. Drawing by the Swiss artist Lindi. The matters at issue were the Soviet Union's entry into the war against Japan and the postwar fate of the Balkans and Poland. Besides Stalin, Molotov and Churchill, the conference was

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Exhibition “Museum of Spiritual Avant-Garde” at the Voznesensky Center on the Christian intelligentsia

For another 12 days the Voznesensky Centre is showing a small but richly packed exhibition, "The Museum of Spiritual Avant-Garde", devoted to the spiritual and worldly experience of the Christian intelligentsia in the 1930s to 1950s, a time that seemed to many without exit and without hope.

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Invitation to a thanksgiving service on the occasion of a company feast day, Moscow, 1913

Invitation to a thanksgiving service on the occasion of a company feast day, Moscow, 1913. The Russia we have lost

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Graphic Works by Erik Bulatov at the pop/off/art Gallery, Winzavod

Graphic works by Erik Bulatov at the pop/off/art gallery, Winzavod. The Bulatov exhibition runs until 16 January

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Lev Rubinstein’s 2000 collection “Domashneye muzitsirovaniye” and several of its pages

Realised I had never heard or read any poems by the well-known Moscow poet and essayist Lev Rubinstein, found at home a 2000 collection of his writings, "Domestic Music-Making", with a bookmark: a 2006 Madrid metro ticket at page 43. There were no poems in the

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A Former Ballet Dancer Selling Flowers in Moscow Still Does the Splits at 60

Photograph of 1960 by Hilmar Pabel, the square in front of the Belorussky Station

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Vasnetsov's triptych “Apocalypse” for Vladimir Cathedral in Kyiv

"He was clothed in a robe dipped in blood. His name is called "The Word of God". And the armies of heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, with which to strike the

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Moscow Libraries Are Giving Away Books Again

Moscow libraries are giving away books again. The traditional campaign Withdrawn Books has begun. The mechanism is very simple. Find the nearest library on the portal, see which books are available, reserve up to 10 books a day and take them home.

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In a world after some irreversible catastrophe, only one Oleg Kikimora remains: a thinker shaped like a bun, wrinkled as a dried fig, who lives in a deadly bog and arranges his existence under the dictatorship of aggressive flora and…

To keep boredom at bay, Oleg Kikimora sets up his own radio station, SPGS, and with his broadcasts shatters the silence of a nature reserve in hiding, lit only by smoky skies and the occasional saluting meteorite. The radio's programme consists of conversations with subscribers, for instance an

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Snowdrifts on Kuznetsky Most in 1918

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A new contemporary art fair, Catalog, has opened in the Sytin printing house on Pyatnitskaya Street

A new contemporary art fair, Catalog, has opened in the Sytin printing house on Pyatnitskaya Street. The fair is organised by the Association of Galleries and may be regarded as normative: laid out in a single line, clearly arranged, with all the galleries on an equal footing, to the point