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Two-Headed Eagle Reclaims Old Perch">Two-Headed Eagle Reclaims Old Perch

"As legislators vowed Friday not to remove the Soviet hammer and sickle from the State Duma building, the two-headed eagle of the Romanov dynasty -- albeit a plastic economy model -- reclaimed its pre-revolutionary perch at the tsars' 16th-century summer estate. A two-meter hard-plastic golden eagle, based on a crest smashed 66 years ago, was hoisted to the top of the bell-tower of the white-brick gates of Kolomenskaya, the park and museum on the banks of the Moskva river in southern Moscow. It was the first reinstallation of a tsarist crest on a building anywhere in Russia since the 1917 revolution, according to Kolomenskaya museum curator Vladimir Suzdalev.