23 January
On January 23, 1924, a decision was made to build a tomb on Red Square for Vladimir Lenin. In the middle of the night, architect Aleksey Shchusev received an urgent call from the government ordering him to create a tomb for Lenin in three days.…
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Peter Carl Faberge
Peter Carl Faberge was a world famous master jeweler and head of the ‘House of Faberge’ in Imperial Russia in the waning days of the Russian Empire.
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Author: Irina Vasilevitskaya
Published: 16 June 2011
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St Petersburg from the sky: St. Petersburg Mosque – Russiapedia Picture galleries
