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AN INTERNATIONAL FEAST FOR THE eyes, Embassies of Washington takes readers on a tour of the glittering and sumptuous embassies in the nation’s capital.
Long gone are the days when ambassadors complained of “living in a frontier country” and felt they endured unimaginable hardship by moving to the American capital. Today’ s embassies are an array of grand mansions, filled with opulent fur nishings and international objets d art – some left by earlier private residents, once titans of com merce. Here you will be given a photographic tour of the Soviet embassy, just as the Lenin bust and hammer-and-sickle flags are being retired, and the ornate French embassy, which includes treasures from the Garde-Meuble national store house in Paris. Some 30 residences, embassies, and chan ceries are included, giving a special glimpse into this world off the usual tour routes.
