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Ninety Years on Moscow Streets, THE MOSCOW TIMES

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From: The Moscow Times (Russia)
Date: 20031024
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The Moscow Times (Russia)
10-24-2003
Moscow policemen of 1913 and 2003 side by side at the "Moscow Time" exhibit.

Ninety years in Moscow have seen Tverskaya Ulitsa shift its course,
and the Christ the Savior Cathedral destroyed and rebuilt on its original
spot.
Track those changes in an exhibition at the Alexander Pushkin Museum
entitled "Moscow Time," which juxtaposes 200 pairs of photographs taken
on the same spots in 1913 and 2003.
The before-and-after shots cover everything from thoroughfares, such
as Komsomolskaya Ploshchad, where a speeding car has replaced trams and
horse-drawn carts, to ...

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