The bloody conflict that pitted Russia against a large European coalition is shown here to be part of a chain of long-held antagonisms that continue to this day.
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Stories
Francesco Zizola: Crimean War Photography
The Crimean War was the first conflict to be documented by photographers in the modern sense, and where war photography was born as a genre. Historical events ceased to be portrayed by painters and engravers, and the depiction of reality was passed into the hands of the new “truthful” medium. Using the photos of Fenton, Robertson, Beato and Klembovsky as reference, Francesco Zizola reshot the same pictures today, maintaining – where possible – the same angle of the original. His images are presented alongside the originals in diptych-like montages, offering a striking evidence of how much the landscape has changed, and how many wounds it still retains.
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Brezhnev’s dacha, residence in Crimea
Druzhba Sanatorium (Crimea): Interview with the Architect Igor Vasilevsky
The interview was conducted by Robin Monotti Graziadei and Nikolai Vassiliev and took place at the Central House of the Architect in Moscow on the 30th May 2016. The English translation is by Robin Monotti Graziadei.
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Inkerman road, Britain
The Crimean war is mostly kept in British cultural tradition. This is ironic since it is French who did most of the fighting during the Siege of Sevastopol. Nowadays this tradition is reflected mostly in local toponym
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Sale of broth
Sale of broth on the embankment of the capital of the resorts of the USSR - the city of Yalta
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Soviet travel brochures about Crimea
1920-1930
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Opening of the park of living history “Fedyukhiny heights”
A unique space of historical reconstruction, which presents all the eras and key events in the history of Crimea - from antiquity to the Crimean War.
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American design of Yalta embankment umbrellas
In the early 1960s, plastic wavy umbrellas were installed on the Yalta Embankment, looking either like mushrooms or edelweiss flowers. They are still one of the most recognizable symbols of the resort city. The story of their appearance in Yalta is amazing. They were designed by the legendary George Nelson, Vitra's chief architect. Exhibited in the Moscow Sokolniki Park, during the "American National Exhibition".
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