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I returned to Moscow in the fall of 2005 with our Belgrade middle school soccer team. As it turns out, I must be good luck! Just like on my last trip with a sports team, we marched in and won the first place trophy. All the boys agree I must be good luck for them...
pages: Moscow at night pg 1 - Moscow at night pg 2 - Red Square in the rain - Food, Crafts, and Entertainment

Moscow at Night


Because of the nature of the trip, we really didn't have a lot of time for sightseeing, but we were lucky in one major respect. We were housed at the Rossiya Hotel, an enormous hulking mass of Soviet-era concrete situate right outside of Red Square. That made it very easy for us to go out at night when the lights were on and enjoy the best-known sights.


You can still buy the old 'rabbit fur' hats there at night too!

We saw charging horses and hard-working women on painted cows (and were yelled at for taking her picture!)

St. George is the patron saint of Moscow, and we've adopted him for our own as well, so the huge world map with him on it was pretty impressive to see.

Of course the Russians have not forgotten any of their history- General Zhukov astride his noble steed keeping the Nazis out of Moscow (it is hard to see, but there is a swastika under the horse's front right hoof)

 

It was interesting to note that there were still plenty of facades around town with the old hammer and sickle carved in them - even with the Russian flag displayed above (not to mention the red stars on the Kremlin's towers)
This was the view of St. Basil's and the Kremlin walls from our hotel room!! I wanted to take a morning picture with the sun coming up, but I found out (to my chagrin) that the spotlights are turned off at 7:30 am SHARP!
pages: Moscow at night pg 1 - Moscow at night pg 2 - Red Square in the rain - Food, Crafts, and Entertainment

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