Three stages of one cake: scroll through the photos from the latest to the earliest and you get, quite literally, the restoration chronology of the federally protected heritage site in whose shape the cake was made
In the year of its centenary, the Library of Foreign Literature has at last opened the restored late eighteenth-century house at Nikoloyamskaya, 6. The whole official upper crust of culture turned out for the occasion: the minister, deputies, heads of federal agencies, directors of institutions. Even Vladimir Medinsky sent a note of congratulation.
As for me, I modestly sampled a slice of the main building, which tasted of the famous oval hall where, if memory serves, the Globus literary prize was once awarded. I have been savouring the opening for a week now. As they say, to your health and ours.
