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There are 26 item(s) tagged with the keyword "architecture".

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21. Saving Moscow - One Letter at a Time

Activists in Moscow are crowdfunding to restore century-old signs, and uncovering traces of a buzzing and eclectic merchant city.

Tags: history, business, architecture, Moscow
22. A Good Time to Visit Pskov

Sleepy Pskov has everything a historic Russian town ever needed: a winding river, a kremlin, and whitewashed churches – all of which have finally received global recognition from UNESCO.

Tags: tourism, architecture, churches, pskov
23. House on the Embankment

If these walls could talk. The history and horror of one of the most epic construction projects of the Soviet era.

Tags: soviet era, architecture, moscow, purges
24. Smolensk

Irina Novikova explains the resilience of Smolensk, its legends, ghosts, churches and fortress. Oh, and why people stop by a city park to stroke the genitals of a bronze deer.

Tags: world war ii, hitler, architecture, great patriotic war
By Irina Novikova
25. Moscow

Ekaterina Klyueva takes us to the capital, the center of empire, a city everyone knows but no one every sees in full: Moscow!

Tags: Moscow, architecture, urban
By Ekaterina Klyueva
26. Architecture and unexquisite corpses

A church’s domes caving into the altar. A transgender couple finagles a wedding. A hospital patient shares a room with a corpse. Just another TWERF.

Tags: architecture, murmansk, marriage
By Alice E.M. Underwood

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