Other sights in Arkhangelsk
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Gostiny Dvor
In the 17th and 18th centuries, Arkhan-gelsk’s raison d’être was the Gostiny Dvor, a grand, turreted brick trading centre built between 1668 and 1684. Luxurious European textiles, satin and velvet arrived here while flax, hemp, wax and timber for ships’ masts were exported. The once-huge complex is now only a shadow of its former self but some partly restored sections host exhibition rooms that usually have a couple of worthwhile historical and/or art displays.
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Art Gallery
Arkhangelsk’s most compelling art gallery jams together a remarkable selection of 18th- to early-20th-century Russian paintings ranging stylistically from Stanislav Khlebovsky’s very operatic Death of Prince Oranskogo (1861) to Pili Petrovichev’s impres-sionist Beryozy (Birches, 1917). Upstairs are impressive icons, bone carvings and decorative art displays. However, the building containing all these delights is an architectural crime against humanity.
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Museum
The historical section in this museum has strikingly presented sections on the Soviet-era timber industry, Gulag camps and notably WWII, when the city was pounded by 2100 German bombing runs and survived largely thanks to supply convoys from Scotland. Downstairs the Nature Section is a lumpy taxidermy collection.
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Lair of Art Gallery
In the fine Marfin Mansion, the Lair of Art Gallery hosts occasional miniconcerts, but is most interesting for its furnished interior and large model of how Arkhangelsk looked a century ago.
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SG Pisakhov
For imaginative presentation visit the home of SG Pisakhov whose passion for the Arctic scenery of Novaya Zemlya was shared by AA Borisov.
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Ek Plotnikov
Best for its period interior furnishings is that of EK Plotnikov whose paintings feature prominently at the Fine Arts Museum.
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