To celebrate Moscow City Day and the capital’s 870th birthday, we asked you to send us your favorite photos of the city. Here’s a selection of the best.
Socialist modernism is architecture in the Soviet bloc from 1955 to 1991. It is quirky, sometimes ridiculous, but all the same a real attempt to create a new urban aesthetic.
At the Bolshoi Theater Valery Fokin’s “Masquerade: Remembrance of the Future” channels the celebrated 1917 production by modern theater legend Vsevolod Meyerhold.
In the courtyard of the Tretyakov Gallery is a pavilion that shelters a new work of art by Pavel Kaplevich. But before you enter, go into the museum to see the work that inspired it.