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The “Annushka” tram on Malaya Dmitrovka in 1896

The “Annushka” tram on Malaya Dmitrovka in 1896. Straight ahead is the Cathedral of the Passion Icon of the Mother of God, part of the Strastnoy Monastery, demolished in 1937. On the left is the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki, built in 1652 and surviving to

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The Icebreaker Krasin in 1934

The icebreaker Krasin in 1934. I look at these photographs and cannot get it into my head on what grounds, or by what leap of imagination, anyone decided to rename an icebreaker with the splendid name Svyatogor after a Party functionary.

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How About a Flat with a Games Room in Your Very Own Late Seventeenth-Century Dungeon?

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Restoration of the Great Cathedral of the Don Icon of the Mother of God, dating from the late seventeenth century, in the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow is in full swing

Restoration of the Great Cathedral of the Don Icon of the Mother of God, dating from the late seventeenth century, in the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow is in full swing. The entire interior of the cathedral is under scaffolding, including the unique seven-tier carved iconostasis of the time of