New Tretyakov Gallery
Soviet modernist gallery of twentieth and twenty-first century Russian art beside a graveyard of toppled Soviet statues.
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This guide to the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow opens on the night of August 22, 1991, when a crowd outside KGB headquarters decided a statue of secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky had to come down. It follows the ropes, the truck, and the crane called in when the statue's fall threatened to crack the metro station below, and traces where the toppled statues of Lenin, Stalin and other Soviet leaders ended up on the waste ground behind this riverside gallery. Listen for how that scattered stretch of grass and bronze got its name, Muzeon.
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