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For some, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior is “Holy Building”. For some, an income enterprise

The Moscow mayor personally, sometimes several times a month, visits the construction, throwing well -aimed remarks during the inspection. The correspondent of the “Foundations” himself heard Yuri Mikhailovich when he was told that they would first put marble floors, and then the artists under the leadership of Cerenetel would begin to paint the arches, grumbled displeasedly: “Zurab, we will put the floors, and then you are licking them.”

A year ago, “Results” (see No. 47) already wrote about scandals with murals: then Cerethel (and colleagues), he considered the work to recreate the paintings for the copyright and asked Luzhkov to pay for it accordingly - at the prices of the last century, recalculated at the modern course. It turned out 373 billion rubles (tensions of the lowered) at that time more than 60 million dollars. Although Luzhkov did not give so much money, he approved the Academy of Arts as a general contractor. Then the restorers for a long time convinced the artists that it was necessary not to make new paintings, but to recreate the old ones, that it is not necessary to use acrylic paints and computers. Artist