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Article: Treasures from Dresden's Green Vault to be shown in Moscow exhibition
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- April 5, 2006
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AP Worldstream
04-05-2006
Dateline: BERLIN
A selection of baroque treasures from Dresden's celebrated Green Vault will go on show in Moscow next month, officials said Wednesday.
The treasure chamber of the baroque palace of August the Strong, filled with 18th century artifacts from copper etchings to gold-filigreed ornaments, returned to the palace in 2004, 62 years after it was moved for protection during World War II.
From May 17 to Aug. 2, "a representative selection of important objects of the Late Baroque period" will be shown at the Russian capital's ...
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