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House-Elephant
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Photo: Elephant House at the Novoryazanskoe highway (15 km from Moscow Ring Road).
A point on the Google map: 55.593967, 37.994080
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Kuskovo
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Late autumn in Moscow. No visitors in park. Only wedding Photographer and frozen white brides.
Photo: The Grotto.
The grotto was constructed between 1755 and 1761 by the architect F. Afgounov, and was intended to represent the palace of the King of the Seas. It was placed next to a large pond, which reflected its imposing facade and dome. Inside rows of niches were filled with statues of Venus, Diana, Ceres, Flore, Juno and Jupiter. The windows were covered with iron grills forged by serf artisans look like strands of seaweed. The interior space, under dome, is meant to be the throne room of Neptune, crusted with seashells (1771-1775.) The grotto is one of the few 18th century grottos still preserving its original decoration.
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Reichstag
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Photo: Photo: Palace of Culture in city Lyubertsy.
Especially colorful in the background «Reichstag» looks a monument to Lenin, survived after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
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Stalinist architecture
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Photo: st. Zemlyanoy Val, 21. Garden Ring. Arch. Weinstein 1936-1937.
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The bright spots of the capital
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