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MOSCOW, May 2, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Germany has announced it will help celebrate the Moscow Kremlin's bicentennial by holding exhibitions and theater performances in Russia's capital.
A spokesman for the German Embassy in Moscow told Russia's Interfax news agency that 2006 was not only the 200th anniversary of the Kremlin but also the 800th anniversary of the German city of Dresden, and that Dresden was celebrating a "Russian Culture Year."
A highlight of the German events is an exhibition of jewelry that belonged to August the Strong (1670-1733), elector of Saxony and king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The exhibition, entitled "Room of Valuables of August the Strong," will be held from May 17 to Aug. 2 at the Kremlin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are sponsoring the exhibition, the embassy spokesman said.
Another exhibition will show old photographs of German cities -- including Dresden, Leipzig, Jena, Halle and Weimar -- at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture from May 10 to 30.
Dresden's Schauspielhaus theater will perform "Nathan the Wise," a comedy by German 18th-century writer and philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. The performance will be presented June 1 and 2 at Moscow's Theater on Taganka.
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