"Stench, stones, luxury, poverty. Dissipation. A collection of robbers who have plundered the people and conscripted soldiers and judges to guard their orgies while they feast.” Tolstoy - 1881

USSR era Moscow city scale model. Efim Deshalyt - 1976

USSR era Moscow city scale model. Efim Deshalyt - 1976

How can a place justly renowned for its wickedness and inequities manage not only to survive but to thrive?

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