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Leading visitors through the anarchy and excess of boomtown Moscow all the way to the cultural sanctuary of St. Petersburg, this essential guide to Russia's twi

The rich tradition of French painting was an important influence on Russian art from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1920s, a period that saw the rise of many

The more one watches Moscow, the more it looks like a huge chameleon that keeps changing its face; and it isn't always pretty. Despite its stunning outward lust