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Yeliseyevsky Food Emporium, an iconic food hall set in a palace in Moscow, is closing its doors after 120 years in business.
The supermarket on Tverskaya Street in the centre of the city first opened in 1901, in Imperial Russia.
It continued trading through a revolution and comfortably outlived the Soviet Union.
But ultimately it was the Covid-19 pandemic, along with a complicated legal agreement over the sale of the building, that led to its downfall.
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image captionThe store is on one of Moscow s busiest streets
Although it was once bustling and vibrant, the building is now largely empty, both of shoppers and of inventory.
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