Sunday, December 29, 2019

On Red Square in the Kremlin, Moscow, Week Before 2020

On Red Square in the Kremlin, Moscow, Week Before the New Year!


First, the New Year tree on the Manezh Square.




The History Museum, which is already on Red Square proper, is on the background.


People on Red Square - crowds but not massive, many are parents with small children.



Spasskaya tower with the Kuranty clock.


The Ruby (glass) star.





The Minin and Pozharsky monument in front of St. Basil's cathedral.


The square houses a massive fair-like event plus there is an ice rink but mainly for the little ones, I think.


Food.


Samovar for tea making.




Васильевский спуск (кажется так).









Belyash on Red Square - had one - eatable but nothing to write fondly home about and 200 rubles too.





That's all for now, head for the exit!


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Sunday, December 15, 2019

Solyanka and Kotelnicheskaya in Moscow Dec 2019

Solyanka and Kotelnicheskaya in Moscow Dec 2019 at night.


On Solyanka.



Kotelnicheskaya naberezhnaya (embankment) high rise.





Monday, December 9, 2019

Street and travel photography: Arbat, Moscow, on the right-hand side

A photo project walk with a Sony RX100 m2 on the Arbat on the right-hand side (looking from the Kremlin) with a camera - in October 2019


First, the Mosselprom building, a landmark.
 


New Arbat Avenue on a cloudy autumn day looking from the direction of the city center.



A functioning place of worship - the Church of the Saint Simeon Stylites


Many famous people were married here going back centuries.


Some current celebrities were also married here.






A reclining poet - a sculpture of the poet A. S. Pushkin in one of the back yards along Bolshaya Molchanovka ulitsa (street).


Poet Lermontov's museum where he used to live, hailed from the Learmonds of Scotland (when it was still an independent country).


That's Belgium's embassy right there on Bolshaya Molchanovka.


A grand entrance in the building opposite the Belgian embassy.


Povarskaya street viewed from the  city center.


Povarskaya street  - to the city center.



Ornaments on the building occupied by Norway's embassy.



Again the Saint Simeon Stylites Church.


And again the grand entrance building opposite the Belgian embassy.


Poetess Akmatova monument.


Her museum.


Gnesin Academy of Music.



Monument to writer Bunin, Nobel prize for literature.


Intersection of Povarskay and Maly Rzhevsky.



Two-story Gothic style building is one Kozlovskaya's residence built by architect Andreev.

To its right is the building where writer Bunin used to live.


Shuvalov's building at the intersection.


 Concert Hall of the Gnesins Academy of Music.


Building No. 22 in Khlebny Pereulok. A one-story building a mezzanine built in 1858.



Two-story residential building (No. 24), early Soviet period, 1926. 

One of the very few such buildings left.



Khlebny Pereulok viewed from the city center.


Khlebny Pereulok viewed to the city center.


Some buildings in Khlebny.


 House # 24 built 1926, as aforementioned.



Skaterny pereulok.


Some small theater.


Another church.


Stolovy pereulok.


Street art in Merzliakov pereulok (lane).


If I were asked to provide a caption, I'd come with two choices:

(i) one small step... for all man kind (and about as real).

(ii) Musk on Venus.


Here is a Polar Explorers Building viewed from the inner yard.





Writer Gogol's former residence, currently a museum too.


The Polar Explorers House from the facade side.




Back to the New Arbat.


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