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  2. List of Stalin's residences - Wikipedia

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    There were 5 Stalin's dachas in Abkhazia [2] New Athos dacha; Kholodnaya Rechka dacha; Lake Ritsa dacha; Sukhumi dacha, amid the Sukhumi arboretum (now part of the Sukhumi botanical garden) Miusera dacha; He also used to stay in (former royal palaces) such as Livadia Palace, Crimea or Massandra Palace, Crimea. Alternatively, many of Stalin's ...

  3. Kuntsevo Dacha - Wikipedia

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    The room was decorated with images of Vladimir Lenin and of the writer Maxim Gorky. It was in this room that Stalin welcomed the Soviet Politburo for meetings and late-night dinners and where important decisions were often made. An "almost invisible" door located on one side of the dining room led to a kitchen and Stalin's bedroom. [5]

  4. Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia

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    Stalin's room was said to have been equipped with sensors to alert the staff and guards if there was any movement. [6] At approximately 11:00 p.m. on 1 March, Stalin's housekeeper cautiously entered his room and found him lying on the floor, wearing his pajama trousers and a shirt.

  5. House on the Embankment - Wikipedia

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    The relocation of the capital from St. Petersburg to Moscow caused an increased need to house civil servants in Moscow. In 1927, a commission decided that a building would be constructed in the Bersenevka neighborhood, opposite the Kremlin, which had been occupied by the Wine and Salt Court, an old distillery and excise warehouse.

  6. Stalinist architecture - Wikipedia

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    August 1932 – Stalin (then in Sochi) writes a memorandum to Voroshilov, Molotov and Kaganovich. The memorandum explains his opinion of the competition entries, selects Iofan's draft and proposes specific changes to it. This memorandum, first published design 2001, is the basis for most conjectures concerning Stalin's personal influence.

  7. Opinion: What the West gets wrong on Stalin and Putin - AOL

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    Alongside a marked increase in Stalin statues across Russia — more than 100 since 2012 — the Stalin centers appear to affirm a simplistic story: The Kremlin is rehabilitating the ‘Vozhd ...

  8. Kremlin - Wikipedia

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    The Moscow Kremlin [a] or simply the Kremlin [b] is a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia. [1] Located in the centre of the country's capital city, it is the best known of the kremlins (Russian citadels ) and includes five palaces, four cathedrals, and the enclosing Kremlin Wall along with the Kremlin towers .

  9. Why the Kremlin Tried to Obstruct Alexei Navalny's Funeral - AOL

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    O n Feb. 16, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison. It took eight days for authorities to release his body, and they initially sent his mother Ljudmila Navalnaya on a wild goose ...