Sergey Gordeev plans to convert Moscow’s cylindrical Melnikov House (1927) into a museum. (photo Dmitry Beliakov for The New York Times)

On most nights, the Russian Samovar, a dimly lighted restaurant at the edge of the theater district in Midtown Manhattan, is a gloomy blend of new Russian money and faded émigré glamour.

But recently its upstairs dining room was haunted by ghosts from the 1920s and ’30s, the golden age of the Soviet avant-garde. The grandson of the Constructivist architect Moisei Ginzburg stood in a corner chatting with the daughter of Alexei Dushkin, who once designed subway stations for Stalin. A few steps away, the daughter of the Soviet planner Nikolai Miliutin sipped cranberry vodka with Barry Bergdoll, the Museum of Modern Art’s top architecture curator. Lire la suite de l'article de Nicolai Ourousoff http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/arts/design/10olig.html?_r=1&ex=1349755200&en=9f08ef3b7cf6ba80&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

Sergey Gordeev (Jonathan Player for The New York Times)