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Melnikov's best-known work is his own house on Krivoarbatsky Lane, two cylinders of unequal size, built in 1927-29 for himself and his family. Unrepeatable and striking in its simplicity, its form and its handling of light, it stands today in good condition and houses an excellent
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I am not at all sure about the concept of introducing to the beautiful creatures who are as yet incapable of observing elementary rules of conduct WITHOUT simultaneous titanic educational efforts to bring their behavioural pattern into order. I understand all those lovely theories that the child in its mother&
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Chekhov bought Melikhovo after a long search for suitable property in other regions: he came across an advertisement in a newspaper and all but sight unseen decided to take it. It was the first house of their own, one might say, since the days of serfdom, and the whole large
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Not many trees that witnessed the Chekhov era have survived at Melikhovo. There are, for example, two Berlin poplars planted by the keeper and organiser of the local household, the father of the family, the former serf Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov. The peace of the two-hundred-and-fifty-year-old
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At Melikhovo, which Chekhov bought in 1892, he, who had never had a house of his own, acquired for the first time a study of his own, of which he wrote: "I sit in my study with its three large Italian windows and live in blissful content." The
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Today we travelled with the intellectual Club 418 to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's favourite estate, Melikhovo, which became the true family nest of the Chekhovs and gave the world dozens of works of Chekhovian classic. This year the Chekhov Museum at Melikhovo celebrates its 80th anniversary, and Anton Pavlovich
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At Melikhovo, the Chekhov museum-reserve outside Moscow, the writer's garden and kitchen garden have been recreated. Anton Pavlovich adored farming, read horticultural and market-gardening journals and pamphlets without cease, and was proud of his agricultural achievements. In the kitchen garden right beneath the windows of Chekhov&
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A miniature replica of the Bastille with eight towers, made from stone from the Bastille's wall. An original souvenir devised by a man who styled himself the demolisher of the Bastille. A bustling contractor, engaged in pulling down the Bastille before any public debate had formed around the
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Inkwell "Pushkin at Work". 1936, Lomonosov Porcelain Factory
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Have you ever wondered what Berlin looked like in the first months after Victory? The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center has opened the exhibition “Unknown Berlin. May 1945”, which brings together previously unpublished photographs of Berlin in the spring and summer of 1945: people in the city, victorious soldiers, high-
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When you hear of a ‘new’ format of portable smoking systems, remember this German smoking pipe of the mid-19th century, made of porcelain, wood, metal and textile. The piece is from the collection of the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve. Something of the kind may well have been puffed by the