MOSCOW STREET ART – part 3
Reason 652,238 why I love walking around Moscow: Also check out Moscow Street Art Part 1 and Part 2. You will like it 🙂
MOSCOW WALKS: WHY KOLOMENSKOYE IS THE BEST PARK IN THE WORLD
Moscow is an incredibly green city. It has 120 parks in total – 120!!! – and the whole 20% of the Central district is taken up by park spaces. A week doesn’t pass without me taking a walk in a park, no matter the time of year. With so many to choose from, there is…
MOSCOW WALKS: PATRIARSHY BRIDGE on a Winter Night
The small, pedestrian Patriarch’s Bridge connects the northern crescent of the city with Bolotny (Bog) Island in the Moscow River, and offers some of the best panoramas of central Moscow. It begins right behind Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the tallest (and one of the largest) Orthodox Christian church in the world, erected to commemorate…
MOSCOW WALKS: OLD ARBAT AT NIGHT
For many Moscovites the Old Arbat street is imbued with an almost mythical aura and a heavy dose of nostalgia. One of the most famed Russian bards, Bulat Okudzhava, even sang “oh Arbat, my Arbat, you are my Fatherland…” It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact source of this reverence. Arbat’s history is very layered. In the…
MOSCOW WALKS: From RED SQUARE to upper PETROVKA
This is the second part of my long and meandering hike through Moscow. While part one was all about capital’s grandest landmarks basking in the rays of a setting sun, part two is straight-up Christmas nostalgia. I loitered around GUM shopping arcade, walked the historic Nikolskaya Street, went up to Lubyanka Square and its massive…
MOSCOW WALKS: From PARK KULTURY to RED SQUARE
I feel like this winter went by so fast – especially with me spending most of its advent abroad – that I already miss its crisp, snowy days. One such day I took a fantastic 9-kilometer (5.5 mile) walk across the Moscow Center. This is Part 1, basking in the glow of a winter sunset:…
On the Edge of My Seat at VDNKh
VDNKh is one of those Moscow places I do not particularly enjoy yet keep going back to over and over for various half-baked reasons. What is VDNKh? Good question. Vystavka Dostizheniy Narodnogo Khozyaystva, (Exhibition of Achievements of the People’s Economy) is Moscow’s enormous exhibition complex and is one of those grand Soviet relics that seems more like…
MOSCOW CHURCHES
Moscow has more than 300 churches. The oldest one still standing dates back to the early 1400s; the main cathedrals of the Kremlin are about 50 years younger. Those that survived 70 years of Communism, were rebuild afterward or created since represent seven centuries of ecclesiastic architecture. Of course the oldest churches have seen several…
IZMAILOVO KREMLIN IN THE WINTER
Izmailovo Kremlin is an entertainment venue set in a whimsical fortress-palace. It hosts all sorts of museums — of history, art, vodka, bread, — restaurants, a tea house, a crafts market and a marriage chapel, of all things. Basically, it’s a whole lot of random fun (I know I am underselling it) under many brightly…
PASTEL RAINBOW OF VICTORY
Oh how I hate the Winter Gray of Moscow’s streets…. January frosts have come and gone, and suddenly Moscow’s temperatures are hovering at freezing point once again. The snow — which we didn’t get all that much to begin with, as the deep-freeze anticyclones are always light on precipitation of any kind — is melting away…
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