It has just occurred to me that the building laconically depicted on the standard label of perhaps the most popular Soviet/Russian vodka, Stolichnaya, is no more. The Moskva hotel, certainly not the ugliest one in Moscow, has been pulled down to be replaced by a shopping-entertainment-hotel complex.
Winterings in Trans-Scythia
Fragments of a blog
Winterings in Trans-Scythia
Fragments of a blog