Apartments

Moscow's changing architecture

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July 15th 2013
As we entered Moscow on the Moskava River, what surprised me most was the large number of modern high-rise apartment blocks under construction. These architecturally interesting and aesthetically pleasing structures are disbursed among the cold concrete-gray monotonous 8 to 10-story apartment blocks one associates with Soviet era social housing we have seen in other ex-soviet towns. Our guide tell ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more