More than 60 of Russia’s best-known architects, artists, filmmakers and journalists have penned an open letter to Vladimir Medinsky, the Minister of Culture, in a bid to halt plans to turn Moscow’s iconic Melnikov House into a museum. The house, a masterpiece of avant-garde architecture, has been the subject of a bitter feud between the two granddaughters of the architect, Konstantin Melnikov, who are divided over the fate of the property.
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