Vanishing Act

“With the beginning of the new century,
as if someone waved a magic wand,
everything changed.
Moscow is overwhelmed with
the manic haste of any world capital.
Fast money is creating tall buildings,
which have sprung up
overnight on every street.”

These words, which could well have been written by a modern Muscovite, were in fact written by Boris Pasternak about the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, pre-revolutionary Russia was in the midst of an economic boom and Moscow merchants responded with the frenzied construction of factories, multilevel homes and offices, overwhelming the capital’s quiet central neighborhoods.

One hundred years later, the seams of Old Moscow are again splitting from the economic pressure of new construction.

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March 01, 2007