Richard Pennycuick:

>A few years back, someone supplied a link to a site with some of the
>Hartmann pictures and the Gate was nothing like I'd imagined.  If it's
>still there, it's probably down the road from where this Naxos version
>was recorded.  Any listers been to Kiev lately?

In fact, the gate was never built.  It was supposed to commemorate the
Tsar's escape from an assassination attempt.  No one was allowed to speak
of or especially write about the attempt.  That might be why the project
never got beyond the drawing stage.

"Richard Todd" <[log in to unmask]>