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	Russian Orthodox Churches - Alex Maytski provides history and expandable photographs of cathedrals and churches in St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and the Perm Region, some taken from other sites. Advertising.
	Sights of Russia - Gallery of expandable thumbnail photographs of buildings in Moscow and St Petersburg, from Virtual Russia.
	Architecture of Russia - Covers both historic and modern architecture. The historic section includes a database of monuments, containing a photograph and basic information for each.
	Old Russian Cities - On-line exhibition by photographer Vadim Gippenreiter of masterpieces of historic architecture in Kiev, Novgorod, Pskov, Vladimir, Suzdal, Sergiev Posad, Pereslavl, Rostov, Yaroslavl, and Kostroma.
	Yaroslavl' - Church of St. John Chrysostom - A short history and images of this 17th century church.
	Ouspenie (Dormition) Cathedral, Rostov, Russia - The official site provides an outline history and many photographs of this onion-domed church of c.1500, with its ornate interior.
	Russian Architecture - Photographs and information on: landmarks of Moscow and St Petersburg; Kizhi Museum of Wooden Architecture, Karelia; monastery of Trinity - St Sergiy Lavra, Zagorsk. Hosted by Little Russia.
	Sacred Buildings of Suzdal - Photographs of 16th and 17th century churches and the St. Euthymus monastery of the Savior in the old walled town of Suzdal.
	Virtual Museum of the USSR - An architectural project in Moscow by Olga Filippova. Preface by Vladimir Paperny. Large VRML model lets you explore it.
	Golden Ring - The Moscow guide to a group of ancient Russian towns to the north-east to Moscow, noted for their monuments of Russian architecture of the 12th-17th centuries. Sketch map and list leads to illustrated descriptions.
	Northern Fortress - Fortresses of northwest Russia and Finland. Photographs, maps, histories, and personal observations.
	Kizhi Open Air Museum - The complex of historic wooden buildings on Kizhi Island in Lake Onega is a World Heritage site, protected by this state museum. Includes images, maps, and visitor information.
	Twenty Centuries of Architecture in Russia - Jackie Craven provides a photo tour of some of the country's most important buildings, plus related links.

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Chesterton Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov Architecture I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Architecture "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling Architecture We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin Architecture They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Architecture Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Architecture Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Architecture "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life Architecture Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre Architecture "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette Architecture Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Architecture To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Architecture "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Architecture "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Architecture Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Architecture I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre I was nauseous and tingly all over... 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