Airport - domodedobo
cobor - on trip from airport to home
drive home from airport
View from Room of Dortel
my room!
shower - has hot water!
one of many remnants of soviet past - building on leningradsky prosp, across from university
amazing bridge
Pizza
industrialization seen on canal ride around the city
one of the 7 sisters
sports stadium
typical advertisement seen around the city
peter the great statue- caused great controversy
red october chocolate factory
Kremlin!
first view of St. Basil's
yes - those are real cars
dentist's office - they are everywhere!
dilapidated building
soviet style buildings
Leningradsky Prospect
Hammer and Sickle
we
inside the metro
flash flood on our street corner
outside of red square
sharik!
red square!
GYM (pronounced Goom) - super expensive mall traversed by the new, rich russians and tourists
Lenin's mausoleum
old executioner's block
where the blood once ran
lenin inside of the metro
ochakovo beer factory
Belorusskaya metro station
metro
inside Moscow metro stations
walking down old Arbat - the street down which Margarita flies in Bulgakov's Master and Margarita - now a place of really expensive souvenir shops
haha -starbucks
typical Moscow - contrast of wealth and beauty against age and decay
Pushkin and Pushkin's wife - memorial
Pushkin home
Macdonald's menu
Looming Soviet relic
we were cursed at by russian nationalists while taking this picture
marxistskaya at night
red square at night
izmailovsky rynok! my favorite place to peruse
bear.
walk through izmailovsky park
babyshka'a on a ferris wheel in izmailovsky park
mendeleevskaya
Hotel Sovietetsky
Bolshoi Theater - closed for repair - as is everything
Marx in the city center
general Shukov
gate to alexandrovsky garden
kremlin
tomb of the unknown soldier
memorial to sebastopol in the Great Patriotic War (WWII)
memorial to Stalingrad
Lubyanka prison
Dostoevsky!
monastery
view of the city from Sparrow Hill
hammer and sickle
Patriarch's pond - first scene of Master and Margarita located here
toilet?
the White House
memorial to 1917 revolution
THE Swan Lake
Gerashenko
Gorbachev's wife
Brezhnev relatives
Brezhnev's wife
Tretyakov
Khrushchev
Shaliapin
Stalin's relatives
Stalin's wife
Bulgakov's grave
Chekhov!
Gogol!
Yelstin!
Priyaniki (gingerbread cake) from Tula
Pond at Yasnaya Polyana - Tolstoy's estate
washing clothes in the lake
location of Tolstoy's house
wedding party - wedding tradition is to run around taking pictures at various locations with friends after the wedding lots of champagne is involved
typical car
marx in Tula
begging babushka
country side
soviet style buildings on way into the city
very old bank, as indicated by teh old-style use of the hard sign at the end of the word
inside of GYM
Ballerina! Swan Lake performance
groups after Swan Lake
"the country needs your records. every minute in Russia 3 people are born"
inside of St. Basil's cathedral
storm is a-brewin' it rained about 20 out of 30 days july is the rainiest month
inside the kremlin!
tsar's cannon
tsar's bell
my favorite blini store! blinnaya! mmm - blini with jam!
broken umbrella from ismailovsky
kolomenskaya park!
dam
garden
funny "museum" inside Kolomenskaya, that they attempted to hide from view and charge entrance into. you can see it from a hill a few meters away
cafes in Kolomenskaya
cooking hotdogs in the dorm soviet water heater
nice translation
farewell dinner
moscow plus groups
tamara - professor
andre - professor
vladimir - professor
mattveh
hannah
kyle mitchell
greg - the resident director
ode to socialism
lenin statue outside of the Old Believer's community
typical Moscow - beautiful nature backed by industrialization
Old Believer's cathedral
Soviet arch - ode to wheat farmers entrance to the All-Russian cultural center
homer - in the all-russian cultural center. ?
soviet building... filled inside with a shopping center
soviet building fronted by shops
author in Biblio-Globus
last night in Moscow
