Museum case with labelled mineral specimens: blue topaz, a green-blue aquamarine crystal, phenakite, orthoclase and apatite-nepheline rock. A black-and-white portrait of a man stands nearby.

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Mineralogical museum display: aquamarine, topaz, phenakite and Khibiny rocks

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The Lawyer, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 16th Century

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Fragment of an old painting: two men's heads above animal heads

Corner of a yellow rusticated building with a round plaque reading Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street 19/16, a lantern showing the number and a red and white PG sign.

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Retro-style address plaques on Moscow buildings, including the Helikon-Opera building

Here and there in Moscow, retro-style address plates have begun to appear on buildings. Take, for example, the sign on the Helikon-Opera building, modelled on a Soviet street sign. It looks very pleasing

White pavilion of Moscow's Arbatskaya metro station with three arched entrances and stucco decoration, pedestrians in front, photographed in 1953.

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The Arbatskaya Metro Station Pavilion by Polozkov and Zenkevich Survives Inside the General Staff Complex

It turns out that this luxurious pavilion of Moscow's Arbatskaya metro station, by the architects Polozkov and Zenkevich, still exists; it is merely closed to the gaze of outsiders, standing hemmed in by the General Staff building. Photograph of 1953