Moscow Tip
by ianrmillard
The office with which I worked was off Leninsky Prospekt, not far from the well known statue of the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space
In the warmer weather it looked better! One could buy and drink horrible-tasting kvass from a whitecoated old lady operating a little wheeled tank.Another favourite memory is that of swimmming daily, almost alone, in the vast 'Moskva' outdoor swimming pool, the largest in the world, since used as the site for the rebuilt Christ the Saviour Cathedral, an exact replica of the original 1912 cathedral, blown up on the orders of Stalin in 1934. The plan had been to build a 'Palace of the Soviets' to outdo the American skyscrapers. When the ground was belatedly found to be too soft for such a massive and heavy construction, the site was -- 20 years later -- turned into the huge circular swimming pool I recall well.
The Kropotkinskaya district starts close to the Kremlin walls and is now a conservation zone (whatever that may mean in today's Moscow). This was the traditional aristocratic quarter of the city; Tolstoy and many other famous figures lived here
Sightseeing
by tini58de
Something that every tourist should go see is the Kremlin, the Red Square, St. Basil's Cathedral, GUM, the metro and the Lomonossov University. There is so much more to see and so many aspects of Moscow, that it really depends on the time and the way of travelling.
If you go to the Red Square, you will have 70% of the "must see places" within walking distance - and you will still need a lot of time just visiting those! Standing in front of St. Basil's Cathedral - a dream had come true!!!
The Spaso-Andronnikov Monastery
by kris-t
The Monastery was founded in the middle of XIV century. The famous icon-painter, Andrey Rublev, was this monastery's monk at the end of XIV - the beginning of XV centuries. Fragments of A. Rublev's frescoes remain on the walls of the Spassky Cathedral, which belongs to the Monastery. On the Monastery territory there are a lot of graves of great and famous Russian cultural and art figures, whose monuments have been kept. Nowadays on the Monastery territory there is the Museum of Russian Ancient Culture and Art named after
A. Rublev, which contains a unique collection of old icons from all over Russia. In the Museum you can acquaint yourself with the process of making icons, the technology of making boards and paints, which interprets the meaning of a certain icon, and with the history of various schools of Russian icon-painting of different epochs
Visiting Moscow Sites during a Wedding
by pinik
Usually after visiting the registry office on a wedding day and before the wedding dinner at a restaurant (cafe or just at home) newly-married couple, their freinds and relatives are going for a walk around Moscow. There are some traditional places (points) for such wedding walks. Vorobievy Gory view point is one of them. On a Saturday (especially during summer or early autumn time) there are a lot of weddings there drinking champagne, eating chocolates, taking photographs of the couple with Moscow at background.
Some people find it interesting to come to the place, to compare wedding dresses of brides and guest's costumes :)
Usually, brides wear white dresses but sometimes it's possible to meet a bride in a red dress (by the way, the red colour was the traditional wedding dress colour in the ancient Russia)
Weather.
by mwe
All my Moscow pictures are taken with a 1999 Rollei Prego 90 35mm compact & Fuji Reala 100 film. It was hot (30+C/86+F) & sunny when I visited Moscow in July, 1999.
Of course Moscow in winter (like Canada & the northern & northeastern USA) continues to debunk the idea of global warming & still has 'proper' winters.
See the webcam link for current weather details & to see how Moscow looks right now.
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