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The Kiev Opera group was formally established in the summer of 1867, and is the third oldest in Ukraine, after Odessa Opera and Lviv Opera. Today, the Kiev Opera Company performs at the National Opera House of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv.
On 14 September 1911, there was a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Kiev Opera House in the presence of the Tsar and his two oldest daughters, the Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana. The theater was occupied by 90 men posted as interior guards. During the intermission of a performance Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin was killed. According to Alexander Spiridovich, after the second act "Stolypin was standing in front of the ramp separating the parterre from the orchestra, his back to the stage. On his right were Baron Freedericks and Gen. Suhkomlinov." His personal body guard had gone to smoke. Stolypin was shot twice, once in the arm and once in the chest by Dmitry Bogrov, a leftist revolutionary, trying to rehabilitate himself. Bogrov ran to one of the entries and was subsequently caught. "He [Stolypin] turned toward the Imperial Box, then seeing the Tsar who had entered the box, he made a gesture with both hands to tell the Tsar to go back." The orchestra began to play "God Save the Tsar." The doctors hoped Stolypin would recover, but, despite never losing consciousness, his condition deteriorated. The next day, the distressed Tsar knelt at Stolypin's hospital bedside and kept repeating the words "Forgive me". Stolypin died three days later.
Gemäldegalerie, Kulturforum, Tiergarten, Berlin.
La Gemäldegalerie es una pinacoteca que forma parte del conjunto de Museos Estatales de BerlÃn (en alemán: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). Cuenta con una destacada colección de arte europeo desde el siglo XIII hasta el XVIII. Se ubica en el Kulturforum al oeste de la Potsdamer Platz. Su colección incluye obras maestras de artistas tales como Alberto Durero, Lucas Cranach el Viejo, Hans Holbein, Rogier van der Weyden, Jan van Eyck, Rafael Sanzio, Tiziano, Caravaggio, Pedro Pablo Rubens, Rembrandt, y Johannes Vermeer. Se inauguró en 1830. Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, como consecuencia de la división de la ciudad, los fondos del museo estuvieron separados entre BerlÃn Oriental y BerlÃn Occidental. Tras más de cincuenta años, en 1998, volvieron a reunirse en su actual emplazamiento.
Desde el año 1997 la galerÃa se ubica en el Kulturforum de Potsdamer Platz. El edificio fue diseñado por los arquitectos muniqueses Heinz Hilmer y Christoph Sattler, quienes en 1986 ganaron el concurso para el proyecto.​ El museo cuenta con 72 salas distribuidas en dos plantas. Las salas superiores giran en torno a una amplio vestÃbulo principal, en el que a veces se expone escultura, y donde predomina la luz natural. El total de obras se muestran a lo largo de 2200 metros de pared, lo que permite una exposición diáfana en un espacio grande.​
The Gemäldegalerie is a pinacoteca that is part of the set of State Museums of Berlin (in German: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). It has an outstanding collection of European art from the 13th to the 18th century. It is located in the Kulturforum west of Potsdamer Platz. His collection includes masterpieces by artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Holbein, Rogier van der Weyden, Jan van Eyck, Raphael Sanzio, Titian, Caravaggio, Pedro Pablo Rubens, Rembrandt, and Johannes Vermeer. It was inaugurated in 1830. After the Second World War, as a result of the division of the city, the funds of the museum were separated between East Berlin and West Berlin. After more than fifty years, in 1998, they met again at their current location.
Since 1997 the gallery is located in the Kulturforum of Potsdamer Platz. The building was designed by the Munich architects Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler, who won the tender for the project in 1986. The museum has 72 rooms spread over two floors. The upper rooms revolve around a large main hall, in which sculpture is sometimes displayed, and where natural light predominates. The total works are shown along 2200 meters of wall, which allows a diaphanous exhibition in a large space.
Whilst the 'walkie-talkie' building is undoubtedly 'striking' in its appearance, it does seem to dominate the London skyline.
Three of the famous buildings in the Bund row. View them on a black background.
Left: The Peace Hotel (和平é¥åº—). Formerly called Sassoon House and Cathay Hotel, completed in 1929. The building has an "A"-shaped footprint, is ten storeys tall, in parts thirteen storeys. In total the building stands 77 metres tall. The green color of the pyramidal roof is caused by it's exterior copper coating.
After a 3 year renovation it reopened in 2010 as the "Fairmont Peace Hotel Shanghai".
Middle: The 18-storey tall old Bank of China Building (ä¸å›½é“¶è¡Œå¤§æ¥¼) was built on the site of the former German Club. It housed the headquarters of the Bank of China. The cut-off appearance of the building's top is allegedly caused by Victor Sassoon's insistence that no other building on the Bund could rise higher than his (Sassoon House) - the original design was for 34 storeys and the foundations were actually built to bear this load.
The foundation-laying ceremony was in 1936, but the war started by the Japanese in 1937 postponed the completion of the building - actually the Bank of China did not move into the building until 1946.
Right: ICBC (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, ä¸å›½å·¥å•†é“¶è¡Œ), the former Yokohama Specie Bank Building (横滨æ£é‡‘银行大楼). Build in 1924, six storeys tall. After the revolution in 1949 it became home of the People's Bank of China, in 1956 the Shanghai Textile Industry Bureau moved in, now it houses the ICBC Shanghai Branch.
Taken from the Lujiazui Riverside Promenade on the opposite side of the Huangpu River.
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The "XYZ" buildings, 6th Avenue (Avenue of the Americas), New York.
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The Union League of Philadelphia, founded in 1862 as a patriotic society to support the policies of Abraham Lincoln, is today a private members-only club.
This is historic Creek Street which from 1903 to 1954 was Ketchikan’s red light district. In modern times it of course caters to tourists with shops and restaurants. The boardwalk and buildings are on stilts due to the uneven terrain and the tide which fills the surrounding area with water during high tide.