Irina Ibraghimova passed along An Article from The Moscow Times on the reconstruction at The Pashkov House, an 18th-century estate, which stands on a hill across from the Kremlin’s Borovitskiye Gates, was closed for reconstruction in 1988. However, the renovation was delayed in the mid-1990s, and the palace has been virtually abandoned since.
“The state of things at the Russian State Library is as much of a litmus test for the condition of Russian culture as the situation with the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theaters and the Hermitage,” Culture Minister Mikhail Shvydkoi told a news conference late last month.
“But more attention has been paid to them recently, and this year we obtained funding to start the reconstruction of Pashkov House,”
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