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"Red Square at night: St Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin, Spassky Tower - Moscow, Moscow Region" in  Russia "Central tower of Moscow State University, one of Stalin's Seven Sisters, viewed from Universitetskaya ploschad."

Churchill's 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma' remains an apt description of Russia; most outsiders have only a hazy idea of its realities. A composite of the extravagant glories of old Russia and the drab legacies of the Soviet era, it's a country that both befuddles and beguiles. Read Russia introduction

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Isaakievskii Sobor (St. Isaac's Cathedral), St Petersburg

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During the first part of the 19th century, 11,000 serfs drove 25,000 wooden planks into the ground creating the foundation for what would become St Isaac's Cathedral. More than 100 kilos of pure gold was used to gild the dome and the 112 …
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Modern Art Museum (Muzei Sovremennogo Iskusstva), Moscow
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Gatchinskii Dvorets (Gatchina Palace), Gatchina
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St. Basil's Cathedral (Sobor Vasiliia Blazhennogo), Moscow
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Sokol'niki Dvorets Sporta (Sokol'niki Palace of Sport), Moscow

Starlite Diner, Moscow

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The Starlite Diner ranks among the most striking of all novelties in modern Moscow—an authentic, allegedly completely American-made chrome-plated American diner that appears like an alien spacecraft among the city's …
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Il Pomodoro, Moscow
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Praga (Prague), Moscow
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St. Basil's Cathedral (Sobor Vasiliia Blazhennogo), Moscow
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U Diadi Giliaia (Uncle Guilly's), Moscow

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On Arbatskaya , the main pedestrian street in Moscow, the red flag is a tourist commodity worthy of currency, along with other Lenin memorabilia and former soviet uniforms, Russian dolls, tin-badges and revolution-era cameras.

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