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The Grand Kremlin Palace. |
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St. Basil's Cathedral. |
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The Assumption Cathedral behind the
Kremlin walls, where all the Czars were crowned from the 16th century
until the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
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Monument to the Unknown Soldier.
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Arbat Street, a famous pedestrian mall in old Moscow. |
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The famous Bolshoi Theater. That
construction shed is there because they were renovating an elaborate
decoration of bolting horses pulling a chariot. Bolshoi, by the way,
means big. Big Theater. They have a way with names, don't
they?
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The sign above the door says "cafe." The street sign
says "Arbat," the name of the street. And, no, I have no idea what
the surveillance cameras are doing there.
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Venders selling their wares on the Arbat. These are
likely art students from a local university.
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Trying to make a buck (or maybe just a kopek) on the Arbat.
She was not very good, I am afraid.
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This guy, on the other hand, was very good.
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St Basil's in the background. That low gruesome
structure on the right is Lenin's Tomb. The leadership used to line
up on this structure to watch the May Day Parade. Sovietologists
would try to divine the outcome of power struggles by observing the order
of the lineup, indicating rank.
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By colleage Mihhail Ivanovich (Misha) Popov in front of
Lenin's Tomb. You can see the name Lenin in Cyrillic on the front of
the structure. You can also see the guards. There was a
changing of the guards every hour, one of the most comical sights you can
imagine.
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Lubyanka Square in downtown Moscow. These buildings
were the headquarters of the dreaded KGB. The statue is of Felix
Dzerzhinsky, founder of the first communist secret police, the Cheka.
One of the most memorable scenes of the fall of the Soviet Union was of
this statue being pulled down by jubilant citizens as KGB officers peered
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A closer view of the Lubyanka Square. The statue was
pulled down just months after I took this picture.
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Moscow State University. This is the tallest building
of higher education in the world. The second tallest is the
Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh (or so they claim).
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The view from MSU of the Moscow River. |
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The residence of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox
Church.
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The offices of the Patriarch.
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The Patriarch's chapel.
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A statue of Lenin in front of the hotel of the Academy of
Sciences, where I stayed while in Moscow. Probably not there any
more, but that's just a guess. |
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Me in front of St Basil's in Red Square.
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You are not going to believe what this guy is doing.
The explanation is in my Living folder.
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