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Moscow sign |
Misty city
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Fire juggler |
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Olympic
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green Russian Orthodox Church |
Triumphal Arch |
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour |
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Eternal flame and war memorial |
Statue of Marshall Zhukov outside State Historical Museum |
Iberian Chapel |
Lamp post |
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Resurrection gate and State Historical Museum |
Statue and child |
Statue and ducks |
The Kremlin, Moscow |
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Child by fountains and horses |
Fountains and horses |
Maid and swan |
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Domes and lamp posts |
Lanterns and domes |
A Kremlin gatehouse |
Typical Stalin 'Wedding Cake' building, seen
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Arbat |
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Arbat is Moscow's most charming and lively pedestrian street. Once a
bohemian quarter of the city, littered with cafes crammed full of the
capital's intellectual elite |
Sculpture of the poet
Alexander Pushkin and his beautiful young bride Natali Toncharova |
MacDonald's get
everywhere! |
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Kremlin |
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Map of the Moscow Kremlin |
The Cathedral of the Archangel |
Ivan the Great Bell Tower with Assumption Belfry on the left |
Church of the Deposition of the Virgin's Robe |
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Palace of Facets |
Window detail of Palace of Facets |
Assorted Copulas in the Kremlin |
Cathedral of the Dormition |
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Annunciation Cathedral under wraps |
Tsar Cannon and Church of the Twelve Apostles |
Cathedral of the Archangel |
Church of the Twelve Apostles |
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The Cathedral of the Archangel |
The Cathedral of the Archangel the Tsar Bell and Ivan the Great Bell Tower
with Assumption Belfry |
Detail on Ivan the Great Bell Tower dome |
Administrative building and Clock Tower |
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Gardens in the Kremlin |
Gardens in the Kremlin |
Girl in the garden |
Gardens in the Kremlin |
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The enormous Tsar Bell is an impressive 6.14 meters in height, 6.6 meters in
diameter and weighs some 200 tons, making it the largest bell in the world.
While the bell was cooling off in its casting pit, a great fire began in the
Kremlin in May 1737 and water thrown on the bell in attempt to douse the
flames caused a chunk weighing over 11 tons to crack and break off. The bell
lay in the great pit on Ivanovskaya Square for almost a hundred years until
1836, when the French architect Auguste Montferrand raised it and place it
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Ivan the Great Bell Tower |
Cathedral of the Dormition |
The Tsar Bell |
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The impressive bronze Tsar Cannon is one of
the largest canons ever made and was cast in 1586 by the foundry man Andrei
Chekhov. The canon is 5.34 meters long, weighs an impressive 40 tons and has
an incredible calibre of 890 mm. It was originally created with the purpose
of defending the Kremlin's Saviour Gate, which leads to Red Square, but the
canon was never actually fired and has remained on display in the Kremlin as
a fine example of Russian workmanship ever since. Its bronze barrel bears a
relief of Ivan the Terrible's son, Fyodor. The cannon balls lying in front
of the canon were cast at the same time as the gun carriage, but are merely
decorative as the canon was always intended to fire stone case-shot. |
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Tsar Cannon and Church of the Twelve Apostles through trees |
The Tsar Cannon |
Gardens and Administrative building |
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The Armoury |
The Armoury |
Cannon by The Armoury |
Garden in the Kremlin |
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Luzhkov Bridge and Moscow River |
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Luzhkov Bridge (or Lovers Bridge ) over the
Moscow River. There are metal trees on this bridge and the couples write
their names on a padlock, attach it to the tree and lock it and throw the
key into the river. It means that they'll be couples forever. |
Bridge flanked by Cathedral of Christ the Saviour Moscow and Naval Monument |
“Peter the Great” (1997), in honour of the three hundredth anniversary of the
Russian Navy |
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Illuminated fountains |
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Moscow Metro |
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Park Pobedy Station, Moscow Metro, August 2008. |
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Smolenskaya Station, Moscow Metro, August 2008. |
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Novodevichy Convent |
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The Novodevichy Convent was founded in 1524 by
Grand Prince
Vasili III in
commemoration of the conquest of
Smolensk in 1514. It
was built as a
fortress at a curve
of the
Moskva River and
became an important part of the southern defensive belt of the capital,
which had already included a number of other monasteries. Upon its founding,
the Novodevichy Convent was granted 3,000 roubles
and the villages of Akhabinevo and Troparevo.
Ivan the Terrible
would later grant a number of other villages to the
convent. The
Novodevichy Convent was known to have sheltered many ladies from the
Russian royal
families and
boyar clans, who had
been forced to take the veil, such as
Feodor I's wife
Irina Godunova (she
was there with her brother
Boris Godunov until
he became a ruler himself),
Sophia Alekseyevna (Peter
the Great's sister),
Eudoxia Lopukhina
(Peter the Great's first wife), and others. In 1610–1611, the Novodevichy
Convent was captured by a
Polish unit under the
command of
Aleksander Gosiewski.
Once the cloister was liberated, the
tsar supplied it with
permanent guards (100 Streltsy
in 1616, 350 soldiers in 1618). By the end of the 17th century, the
Novodevichy Convent had already possessed 36 villages (164,215 desyatinas
of land) in 27 uyezds
of Russia. In 1744, it owned 14,489 peasants. |
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Novodevichy Park |
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This
duck sculpture
was presented by Mrs Barbara Bush in 1991 as a token of friendship to the
children of the Soviet Union from the children of the United States of
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Red Square |
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General view of Red Square |
Kremlin clock tower by day and at night |
The Kremlin by night |
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Number One Red Square |
Lenin's Mausoleum |
State Historical Museum by day and at night. |
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Redevelopment site |
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The GUM store by day and night |
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Red Square's name has nothing to do with Communism or
Soviet Russia. The old Russian word for "beautiful" and "red" was the same;
the square was supposed to be called "Beautiful Square". Red Square has been
the centre of Moscow activity since the 16th century when the Tsar cleared
the area and allowed vendors, shoppers, and businesses to fill the square.
Today this square is surrounded by the
Kremlin, the State
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Many of the important events of the last three hundred years in Russia have
been marked by parades or demonstrations in Red Square. Anyone who enters
Red Square will have memories from TV or movie reels of this magnificent
public square. Those of us who grew up during the Cold War era can remember
the parades of soldiers, tanks, and other armaments past Lenin's Tomb just
outside the Kremlin Wall. The World War II generation remembers Red Square
as the site of a huge victory celebration at the end of the war. |
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Statue of Minin and Pozhirsky outside St
Basils Cathedral |
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Different aspects of St Bails Cathedral by
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The Cathedral of Intercession of the Virgin on the
Moat - The Cathedral of the Protection of the Mother of God,
or simply Pokrovskiy Cathedral; better known as the Cathedral of
Saint Basil the Blessed , Saint Basil's Cathedral is a
multi-tented
church on the
Red Square that also
features distinctive
onion domes. It is
very often mistaken by Westerners for the
Kremlin whose
buildings are in fact situated across the square from the cathedral. |
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River Boat Terminal |
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Moscow form quay |
Lock near Moscow |
Moscow from quay |
MV
Viking Lomonosov |
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aeroplane and a submarine were brought to a site on the opposite bank for an
exhibition, but to proved too costly to remove them, so they remain and are
used, one as a restaurant and the other as a museum |
Moscow river terminal building from the river
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Moscow river terminal building from the land side. |
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Moscow river terminal building plaque River lock |
Moscow river terminal building plaque Metro |
Moscow river terminal building plaque Railway |
Moscow river terminal building plaque Tank |
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Moscow river terminal gardens |
Moscow river terminal building |
Good bye Moscow |
Moscow dock |
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