A modern megacity is a place where an endless car flow rushes on the wide highways, it is bright at nights because of the neon advertisement lights and where even the whole meaning of ‘night’ is irrelevant: the city works, rests and parties twenty-four hours a day. Such is Moscow today. But take a look at the street signs: Arbat, Varvarka, Ordynka, Pliushikha, Neglinnaya… The scent of the past comes through these every day names. Jagged Kremlin walls, boyars’ chambers of white stone, czars’ country estates, colorful Dutch tiles, traditional old churches this is also Moscow. Even though the oldest Russian city is whimsically inconsistent there are places that enshrine the memories of history, people and events in spite of any changes around and these are the museums. There are more than 200 of them in Moscow and to tell about each one in this book would be impossible. The author had to make a selection therefore the list is personal. We try to illustrate not only the world…
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