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Birthday Buildings is an annual column that highlights Shanghai’s centenarian buildings - that is, those that were built one hundred years ago. This post is backdated by 2023.


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This series of photographs on PastVu come from the family archive of Ariadna Pakhomova, who came to Shanghai in 1923, aged 18, to work as a cryptographer at the USSR Consulate. The pictures are taken in the building on Whangpoo Road, formerly the Imperial Consulate of Russia, which was handed over to the Soviet diplomats in July 1924.

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ГРАНИТНЫЙ БАРИНЪ

Парижъ, Нью-Iоркъ, Берлинъ и Лондонъ!
Какой аккордъ! Но пусть ихъ Рокъ!
Всѣмъ четыремъ одинъ шаблонъ дань,
Одинъ и тотъ - же котелокъ!

Ревутъ: моторы, люди, стѣны,
Гудки, витрины, провода...
И, обалдѣвши совершенно,
По крышамъ лупятъ поѣзда!

Отъ санкюлотовъ до бомонда,
Въ одномъ порывѣ вѣковомъ,
Парижъ, Нью-Iоркъ, Берлинъ и Лондонъ
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