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The display of the exhibition "Sergei Shchukin's Choice. The Birth of Modern Art" at the Hermitage reproduces the hanging of the paintings in Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin's Moscow house, in the Music Room, the Pink Drawing Room, the Large Dining Room, the Cézanne Study and
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Standing between Henri Matisse's "Moroccan Triptych" and Pavel Kuznetsov's "Mirage in the Steppe". Thanks are due to the curators of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, and of course to the great Russian patrons, the Morozovs, for placing on a single
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Children sunbathing near Arbatskaya metro station in the 1960s. Consider how much more human and simple life in Moscow was sixty years ago. Today the city is deprived of such ordinary joys, yet it is drowning in formal conveniences
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Moscow's Tverskoy Court has ruled that a video in which Ksenia Sobchak kisses Anastasia Ivleeva constitutes propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations, and has banned its distribution.
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After his victory at the Battle of the River Cherekha in 1436, during the feudal war of the fifteenth century, Vasily Vasilyevich, Grand Duke of Vladimir and Moscow, ordered one eye to be put out of his cousin and rival for the Muscovite throne, Prince Vasily Yuryevich, who thereafter received
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Soon after the liquidation of the TsIM, the Meyerhold Theatre and Cultural Centre, the Meyerhold Museum closed as well, though this closure passed almost unnoticed by the public. With the TsIM one can still guess at the reasons for what is going on, but why should the blow have fallen
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage
You lived briefly, but brightly! A memorial plaque to the French airmen of the Normandie-Niemen regiment who fell in the Second World War, fighting side by side with the soldiers of the Soviet army. The plaque is mounted on the Tsvetkov mansion on Prechistenskaya Embankment, which since 1942 has
Coming Up · Books · Moscow · Observations
Moscow's libraries are once again giving away withdrawn books: some 70,000 volumes in all. The mechanics of the project are very simple: you register on the website, browse the list of books by author, subject or title, or the list of libraries, choose the editions you want,
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The Pushkin Monument opposite the Strastnoy Monastery, 1936. Alexander Sergeyevich gazes at the spot where he stands today. One of the most beautiful monasteries in Moscow is occupied by the Central Anti-Religious Museum of the Union of Militant Godless of the USSR, the Central Archive, the Communist University of