Pashkov House, Known As Lenin Library, Opens After Restoration

Visitors walk in a ballroom at the Pashkov House, a famous neoclassical mansion and home to the Russian State Library, known during the Soviet era as the Lenin Library, after it reopened following restoration works in central Moscow, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012.

Visitors consult books in a reading room at the Pashkov House, a famous neoclassical mansion and home to the Russian State Library, known during the Soviet era as the Lenin Library, after it reopened following restoration works in central Moscow, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. <AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev>

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