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An early depiction of the Russian Empire by cartographer Isaac Maasa. Whether due to lack of information or assumptions about the size of other empires, this depiction of the Caspian Sea clearly privileges the Russian end of it. Astrkahan and the…

1 map, hand colored. 44 x 59 cm. Prime meridian: Ferro. This map Appears in G. Delisle's "Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde."
(Scale ca. 1:3,150,00)

a golden toilet installed on the pedestal vacated by the Lenin statue in Kiev

photographs of the toppled Lenin statue in Kiev

This map of the Caspian was created by Guillaume Delised and was based on recent information collected by Carl Vanverden in 1719, 1720 and 1721 at the request of tsar Peter I. The first map of the Caspian based on relatively accurate observations of…

Body parts from the demolished statue made available for sale online to earn monetary support for pro-Kiev volunteer battalions in the east.

a history of the Lenin statue in Kiev (toppled in December 2013)

Sasha Senderovich's NYT op-ed on the toppling of the Lenin statue in Kiev

In this New York Review of Books piece, Vladimir Sorokin reflects on the symbolism of the toppled monuments, drawing parallels and making distinctions between how it was done in Russia in 1991 and in Ukraine in 2014, and raising the question of what…

Project for the New Church of the Holy Sepulchre
1939-1940
Luigi Marangoni & Antonio Barluzzi, architects