Fresco find
Soviet Union archeologists have discovered a unique sixteenth-century fresco retaining all its original colours on the ' walls of a church in the old religious centre of Pskov, in northern Russia. According to “KomPravda,” the fresco had been protected by earth since the beginning of the eighteenth century, when Tsar Peter the Great, for some unexplained reason,, ordered that the church be covered with soil. — Mos-, cow.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33938, 3 September 1975, Page 10
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68Fresco find Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33938, 3 September 1975, Page 10
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