Sergej zhukov biography of mahatma
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Outer West
Around Fili Metro Station
Intercession Church at Fili
- 6 Ulitsa Novozavodskaya
- Fili
- http://www.pokrov-fili.ru/
Although the Intercession Church at Fili is rather remote from the city centre it is nevertheless worth visiting as it is one of the best surviving examples as what is known as the Naryshkin baroque architectural style of churches. The church was built between 1690 and 1694 using the funds of Lev Naryshkin (hence the name of the architectural style), the maternal uncle of Emperor Peter the Great. It is believed Lev had the church built in memory of his two brothers who were… Read more »
Around Polezhaevskaya Metro Station
Home Guard Monument
- Skver Narodnogo Opolchenia
- Polezhaevskaya
On the corner of Prospekt Marshala Zhukova (Marshal Zhukov Prospect) and Ulitsa Narodnogo Opolchenia (Home Guard Street) is Skver Narodnogo Opolchenia (Home Guard Gardens). The main feature of the gardens is the simple monument dedicated to Moscow's
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Hammer, Sickle, and Book
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The imagery of triumph and even comedy that attended the events of August 1991 in Russia comforted, and ultimately deceived, the world. The men of the Communist Party, the Army, and the KGB who had tried to seize power in the name of Leninist principles and imperial preservation betrayed their weakness before the cameras: their hands trembled, they drank themselves senseless, they could not bear to pull the trigger (except in the case of one conspirator, Interior Affairs minister Boris Pugo, who, when all was lost, shot his wife, then himself).
The images of Soviet collapse were as levande as any imagined in Eisenstein’s October. On the night the coup failed, the statue of the founder of the secret police, Feliks Dzerzhinsky, dangled from a crane, as if from a noose, outside the offices of the KGB. Aides loyal to Boris Yeltsin roamed the halls of the Central Committee, giddy and wild, searching for files and cash, the detritus of the old regi