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Romanov Films and Music - Alexandra's Bedroom

a film by Sergei Eisenstein

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Vestibule Mosaic of Constantine and Justinian

Everone when visits Hagia Sophia as a tourist today enters from the vestibule on the south side of the building.  Here was discovered a beautiful mosaic.

Church Fathers - Tympana of Hagia Sophia

On either side of the nave of Hagia Sophia are great tympana, most of the mosaics there have been lost, but a few fathers of the church survive

Charles Cameron - Imperial Architect
I Visit the Soviets by E. M. Delafield
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