Be particular with the season!
by Magvictoria
Try to visit Moscow in May or second half of September.
If you are not afraid of frost and snow you should go to Moscow in December or January to see it covered with the snow.
In good weather ( irrespective of the season)your impressions will be multiplied!
Street Art
by Muscovite
Street art here is not graffiti; we are not such an advanced democracy yet.
The Tretyakov Gallery went into partnership with an outdoor advertiser to promote Russian art.
Free tip for financial advisers:
If you see only landscape and genre instead of perfume or kitchen utensils advertised on outdoor billboards absolutely everywhere, as it was in winter 2008, and to some extent now in summer 2009 – buy!
Photo http://www.adme.ru/creative_outdoor/2008/03/26/22240/
7 If interested book Bolshoi...
by Eric_Nixon
7 If interested book Bolshoi tickets well in advance. Ring for details of shows before you arrive. Demand is high. If you asked me before I came here I would have told you I would be the last person in the world to go and see and oprea but I did in Moscow because I was dragged a long. I found it to be one of the best experiences ever. Definately mark the Bolshoi in your diary. The interior is breathtaking.
Weddings
by Dabs
Weddings take place every day of the week. We saw wedding parties in every city we visited, often taking pictures with monuments.
On our first visit in 1989 it seemed that all of the brides and grooms stopped and left flowers at statues of Lenin. There aren't as many of those statues to be found these days.
Befriending Muscovites at large
by Muscovite
A French functionary who had translated the whole of ‘Eugene Onegin’ in his young days can well discuss Pushkin with like-minded Russian intellectuals, it goes well for bilateral relations.
An Illinois lawyer who is citing our national bard to a bunch of banker trainees and hopes for enthusiastic response? That’s funny, as neither party seems romantic enough to care for verses.
It’s no crime if you don’t know anything about this country or this city. But if you pretend you do while in fact you don’t – that’s another story.
Orest Kiprensky, The Portrait of Alexander Pushkin, The Tretyakov Gallery
Courtesy http://www.aleksandrpushkin.net.ru/