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...Moscow nowadays, there is good eating for high Bolsheviks, bureaucrats and army & navy brass. Grandest restaurant is the Hotel Moskva's (see cut); it gets out-of-season cucumbers from Stalin's own hothouses. Not quite as good, but better-known to Americans, is the dining room of the Metropole. Then there are the smaller, more intimate restaurants, chic and very expensive, with cuisines deriving from Russia's exotic outlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Where to Dine | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...Leningrad and Moscow and is still at work on a coaxial cable to link them up with Kiev, and Sverdlovsk in the Urals. Russians seem to have reached the second phase in television: they are beginning to complain about it. In a recent letter to the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva, carping Reader Vladimir Savochkin demanded more TV sets, more and better programs, spare parts for fans who are building their own sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: TV In Europe | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

Murder of the Cathedral. Muscovites were likely to control their emotion. They could remember Moscow's first attempt to build a skyscraper, the Palace of Soviets, which was to be the world's biggest and grandest edifice. "The monument will be erected on a square [near] the Moskva River embankment," stated the plan, sponsored by Molotov. "The said square will be enlarged by tearing down the Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Hole in the Ground | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

That Dearest Man. Pressagenting a plan for the erection of eight new Moscow skyscrapers (16 to 32 stories), Vechernyaya Moskva predicted that Moscow's skyline of the future will be festive and eye-pleasing, not at all like its American counterpart-not a sway or a crack in a block. Russian architects will avoid the "errors" of U.S. builders-the Soviet skyscrapers will not yield to the wind, but will stand "unshaken and firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Hole in the Ground | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Vechernyaya Moskva ecstatically visualized the future: "Here we are in the vestibule of a new hotel. We enter a gallery and see Moscow. How it has changed! . . . It seems that all Moscow-graceful, light, majestic and solemn, rises over the world, gleaming with the inviting light of ruby stars. Great emotion floods the heart -emotion of great pride for the Motherland, for the Soviet people, for the creative labor inspired by the genius of that greatest and dearest man, Comrade Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Hole in the Ground | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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