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...Bosko Café facing Lenin's Tomb across Red Square, which may well have the best olives in Europe, and order a cappuccino. Walk out into Nikolskaya Street, and turn into posh Tretyakovsky Proezd Street, where Bentleys sell like hotcakes opposite the FSB (former KGB) headquarters. Walk up Petrovka Street and turn left to Pushkin Square, Moscow's real heart. Go to the Pushkin, the best Russian restaurant in town, pictured. Trust your waiter's taste-and order your vodka straight away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Traveler | 4/29/2006 | See Source »

...Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder across Red Square, which may well have the best olives in Europe, and order a cappuccino. Walk out into Nikolskaya Street, and turn into posh Tretyakovsky Proezd Street, where Bentleys sell like hotcakes opposite the FSB (former KGB) headquarters. Walk up Petrovka Street and turn left to Pushkin Square, Moscow's real heart. Go to the Pushkin, the best Russian restaurant in town, pictured. Trust your waiter's taste - and order your vodka straight away. yuri zarakhovich, TIME Moscow correspondent Charming Prechistenka Street leads you to the Temple of Christ the Savior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Night in ... Moscow | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

LOVABLE RUSSIA The Girl from Petrovka (1974; 3) is a detente-era movie: Russian ballerina Goldie Hawn and American journalist Hal Holbrook find romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Hollywood Portrays Its Russians | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

Over the next two decades, Miller directed a number of other movies, including Girl from Petrovka, which starred Goldie Hawn and was Anthony Hopkins' first American feature film, and Reuben, Reuben, a well-regarded comedy for which Tom Conti received an Oscar nomination...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Director Builds on College Theater | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...Girl from Petrovka is a direct descendant of Sally Bowles and Holly Golightly-another kooky waif, whom withdrawn writers find irresistible. Such girls are no better than they should be but-in show biz, anyway-are widely believed to make up with their innocent high spirits what they lack in common sense and stability. In this case, the gamine is played by the ubiquitous Goldie Hawn. The author, whom convention dictates must reluctantly fall for her despite bouts of reformist palaver and exasperation, is played by Hal Holbrook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sally Bowles Again | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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