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THE MASTERPIECES OF BYZANTINE ART

The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

NOW CLOSED

OF XII-XV CENTURIES FROM GREECE

As part of the Year of the Russian Federation in Greece and Year of Greece in the Russian Federation

 

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