MOSCOW (AP).- Russia’s venerable Bolshoi Theater — which survived fires, a Nazi bombing and Lenin’s request to have it blown up — is almost ready to reopen after years of reconstruction and will look just as it did during the czarist era. Th…
MOSCOW (REUTERS).- The house where Russia’s universally acclaimed playwright Anton Chekhov penned some of his greatest work will be restored by the end of this year after decades of neglect, said the British charity behind its repair. Chekhov moved to …
BUDAPEST.- One of Russia’s most important public collections, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, is exhibiting the finest pieces of the Old Masters’ Gallery of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts. Raphael to Goya, which opened on 9 June, dis…
