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Excursion Explosion Draws Crowds to Soviet Cultural Treasures
A vast influx of visitors to Russia’s pre revolutionary museums churches and palaces overtaxes aging facilities. Hermitage faces extensive wear with 480000 June visitors and only 4000 slippers. Officials debate tickets and prices while warning of damage to priceless works and growing deterioration.
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Lenin
Hermitage
Boris Piotrovsky
N. I. Mokhov
Leningrad
Kremlin
Gorin
Old
Russia