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MOSCOW AND ITS CHURCHES
2010-01-28
For the last decade, particularly since Moscow celebrated its 650th anniversary several years ago, the capital of Russian Orthodox world returns little by little to its splendours: almost all the churches – in Lenin and Stalin times turned to stores, deposits, magazines, prisons, or simply closed, completely abandoned and ruined - are now opened, restored. You can see everywhere their guilded or blue onion coupolas with characteristic Russian crosses. Dozens of private city mansions and palaces as well as old big and small houses are renovated. Many state supported museums are renovated and modernized, like the Mayakovsky Museum which is the famous example of conceptual permanent exhibition in Futurist and Constructivist manners. Some new musems are opened, like the Gulag-Museum which is in the same time the research and documentation center for the evidence of victims during communist pogroms. They also collect data on Russian emigrants abroad. But, in the same time, the enornous risk is present: rich Moscow heritage is not always protected adequately. Therefore new associations and non-governmental organizations are founded with the aim to watch carefully and be a loud voice of Russian and Moscow history and their values.
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