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• The Gold Ring of Russia is the name of a tourist route popular with both Russian and foreign lovers of old Russian architecture. The route winding in and out of cities and villages in the north-eastern part of what used to be the State of Muskovy is hardly circular, but it is certainly "golden" in the sense that it is rich in historical monuments and towns that are museums in themselves.
• The State Museum of V.V. Mayakovskii creates a model of age and world of Mayakovsky, transforms the poetical metaphor into poetical compositions, realizes intellect and fantasy of the author, transforms a visitor from an obedient super into a co-author and participant.
• Gallery Marat Guelman homepage offers information about the gallery, it's exhibitions, a catalog and provides interesting works by vanguard photographers from regions in Russia.
• LIK, Light Image Key Online Gallery provides information about artists who work in different genres and trends. Such as realism painting, art design and graphic art. A union of such a mix of styles reflects the condition of national art of the nineties.
• The Divine Comedy Of Dante On The UNESCO. UNESCO and the Russian painter Vladimir Liagatchev have joined forces to recreate the world of Dante's Divine Comedy and present it online.
• Apocalypse In The Trinity Cathedral In Pereslavl-Zalessky offers a beautiful iconographic subject guide to this historical and cultural region, Pereslavl, already more than 800 years old with excellent monuments of Middle Ages.
• Saint-Petersburg Collection of Musical Instruments dedicated to the collection of the Saint-Petersburg Museum of Musical Instruments which possesses one of the largest collections in the world: it counts more than 3000 items, and the major part of them are rare or unique. This website makes this wonderful collection accessible to look at pictures of rare and unusual instruments and use the database, including the collection's catalogue.
• Pavlovsk Palace, State Museum, is a superb palace and park ensemble of the late XVIII - beginning of the XIX centuries which was used as a summer residence of the Russian emperor Paul I and his family. The landscape park, one of the largest in Europe, covers the area of 600 ha. This website provides all the tourist and background information necessary to enjoy this historical site.
• Alexandrovskaya Sloboda state cultural, historical, archeological and art museum, national park.
• Arnis Balcus is a Latvian Photography homepage worth checking out.