Bourganov's House (Russian: Дом Бурганова) is a Russian state museum named after its founder, the Russian sculptor Alexander Bourganov. The museum was based on the private studio of the sculptor founded in 1984, in the historical area of Old Arbat in Moscow. It was officially unveiled as a State Museum in January 2001.
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Sivtsev Vrazhek is a radial lane in the Central Administrative Okrug of Moscow; it forms the boundary between Arbat and Khamovniki municipal districts. The lane begins at a T-junction with Gogolevsky Boulevard and runs west, roughly parallel to Arbat Street and Prechistenka Street, ending at a T-junction with Denezhny Lane, one block short of the Garden Ring. The name of the lane, literally Sivka stream gully, refers to a historical stream now locked in an underground sewer and is only one of two Vrazheks in present-day Moscow.
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The house of Denis Davydov in Bolshoy Znamensky Lane is a mansion beginning of the 19th century in the center of Moscow. In this house from 1826 to 1830 lived the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, Major-General Denis Davydov. Currently, the mansion belongs to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The house of Denis Davydov has the status of an object of cultural heritage of federal significance.
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Gogolevsky Boulevard is a boulevard near the Arbat District, Moscow, Russia, named after the writer Nikolai Gogol. It was named Prechistensky Boulevard until 1924, after the nearby street Prechistenka.
The boulevard begins next to the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, and is the beginning of the Boulevard Ring. The boulevard runs north-east and ends at the Arbat Square, from where it continues as Nikitsky Boulevard.
Gogolevsky Boulevard is home to the world-famous Central Chess Club.
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On 19 January 2009, two Russian journalists, Anastasia Baburova and Stanislav Markelov, were shot and killed by members of the neo-Nazi organization Battle Organization of Russian Nationalists. Baburova became the fourth Novaya Gazeta journalist to be killed since 2000.
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The Embassy of Austria in Moscow is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of Austria to the Russian Federation. It is located at 1 Starokonyushenny Lane in the Khamovniki District of Moscow. The consulate, located in the same building until 2007, now operates from a new nearby building at 7 Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane.
Its main exposition is an outdoors collection of the works of Alexander Bourganov, Maria Bourganova and Igor Bourganov, and other works of the private collection of the family. It stretches between the Big Afanasievsky lane and Sivtsev Vrazhek lane. An addition, the museum hosts works of various Russian and West European artists.