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Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow is a scene for a historical pageant covering different epochs

Published: 01 June 2011

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Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow is a scene for a historical pageant covering different epochs

Warriors preparing for the Kulikov Battle in 1380

This is not a museum; you can touch whatever you want and take part in artifact-making

A clay pot will soon be made

A battle-axe

This is what the forefathers of present-day Russians looked like

Gold and jewels…

A dashing blacksmith…

Old games of chance… Ivan the Terrible seemed to look the other way…

This fine lad is an excellent swordsman

Isn’t the chain-mail shirt too short?

A Streltsy guardsman

Everyone could try his hand at Old Russian orthography

Falconry, a largely-forgotten pastime

The Petrine times

A dashing hussar, albeit without a mustache

World War I and the Civil War

Guns are more fun than dolls…

Some Moscow riffraff

The hottest game in the USSR

Tverskoy Boulevard became a place where you could take a stroll through the pages of Russian history

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