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notable, Gorky Park structure - architect Sigeru Ban used recycled paper as the construction
material.
It vacated the spectacular premises of Bakhmetyev Garage in northern Moscow, which is
now used by the Jewish Museum, but the name stuck. The construction of a large permanent
building nearby its current location in the park was announced some years ago, but appears
to have stalled.
SQUARE
BOLOTNAYA PLOSHCHAD
Named after the swamp it used to be, Bolotnaya has a lot to tell about those who rebelled
against the Kremlin, which views it warily from the other side of the river. Comprised of
gardens and a bulging section of the city's main avenue, flanked by the grim constructivist
Dom na Naberezhnoy, it was the scene of the public executions of the leaders of two of Rus-
sia's main peasant uprisings - Stepan Razin and Emelyan Pugachev.
Centuries later, prominent Bolsheviks, who proudly moved into the newly built
Dom na
Naberezhnoy
in the 1920s, were disappearing from their flats almost every night in Stalin's
Serafimovicha 2; 5-8pm Wed, 2-6pm Sat; Kropotkinskaya)
tells the story of the house's most
prominent inhabitants. The gardens draw punks, hippies and
Lord of the Rings
re-enactment
fans on summer nights. It contains an intriguing sculpture by Mikhail Shemyakin,
Children
are Victims of Adults' Vices
(with the vices depicted in delightful detail). In 2012, it became
the site of anti-Putin protests commonly known as the Bolotnaya movement.
GALLERY
NEW TRETYAKOV GALLERY
10am-6pm Tue-Wed & Sat & Sun, 10am-9pm Thu & Fri, ticket office closes 1hr before; Park Kultury)
The premier venue for 20th-century Russian art is this branch of the State Tretyakov
Gallery, better known as the New Tretyakov. This place has much more than the typical so-
cialist realist images of muscle-bound men wielding scythes, and busty women milking
cows (although there's that too). The exhibits showcase avant-garde artists such as
Malevich, Kandinsky, Chagall, Goncharova and Popova.
In the same building as the Tretyakov,
TsDKh
, or Central House of Artists, is a huge ex-
hibit space used for contemporary-art shows. A number of galleries are also housed here on
a permanent basis.
GALLERY
LUMIERE BROTHERS PHOTOGRAPHY CENTRE
