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  • Differences between Neoclassical Revival and Neoclassicism

    Neoclassical Revival architecture was popular among the builders of Russian tenements, appealing to a broad range of wealthy investors, renters and buyers. This style allowed the occupants to feel li...

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  • Stanislav Mishkevich

    Following the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in Ekaterinburg on the night of 16/17 July 1918, a woman in Berlin claimed to be the tsar’s youngest daughter, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaev...

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  • Scottish Architects in Imperial Russia

    When Peter the Great ascended the Russian throne in 1682, he decided to move Russian culture away from the old religious values. He built a new capital called St Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland and...

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  • Scottish Architects in the Soviet Union

    Just like Peter the Great founded St Petersburg and created a new secular Russia in the early eighteenth century, the Bolshevik government after the 1917 revolution wanted to build a new capital refl...

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  • Top Ten Anglo-Russian Royal Links

    1. Edward and Agatha England was invaded by King Canute of Denmark (1015). King Edmund Ironside of England was defeated at the Battle of Ashington and his son Edward fled to Russia (1016). In Kiev, E...

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  • Autobiography

    My life began on 24 September 1958 at 60 Liteiny Prospekt, where I was brought from the nearby maternity hospital. I was born at the Snegirevskaya Hospital on Mayakovsky Street, only a block away fro...

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  • Russia Is Far From Oil’s Peak

    The good news is that panic scenarios about the world running out of oil any time soon are wrong. The bad news is that the price of oil is going to continue to rise. “Peak Oil” is not our problem. Po...

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  • The Russian Navy Murders

    There was a murder ring operating at the Admiralty in St Petersburg... Rather like the infamous “kill squad” of US army soldiers implicated in the Maywand District murders in Afghanistan in 2010, Rus...

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  • Worldbackwards: The Elena Basner Case

    On 16 July 2014, a major retrospective of Kazimir Malevich opened at the Tate Modern in London. But the woman responsible for the cardinal redating of Malevich ’s canvases and a radical reassessment ...

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  • Broken China: Plagiarism at the Hermitage

    On 7 December 2014, the Hermitage Museum grandly celebrated its 250th anniversary. The programme of events included a dazzling light show on Palace Square, the opening of a new wing in the General St...

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