He tried to make reparations to those he had injured, partly to save face.

The sombre shadows, cast by those huge houses of which it is composed, and the streams of faint light cutting the darkness here and there, where the entrance to some fantastic alley pierces the sable mass of building—the strange projectings, recedings, and windings […]

The Kremlin announced plans to increase funding for museums and the arts.

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