Москва Date(s): May 12-14, 2012. Album by David Clement. 1 - 56 of 56 Total. 62 Visits.
1 Paveletskaya Rail Station - took a train here from Domodedovo
2 straight from Teatral'naya Metro to Red Square
3 St. Basil's Cathedral
4 video of Red Square. This photo has Saviour Tower, Lenin Mausoleum, and Senate Tower
5 Marshal Zhukov, a WWII hero, in front of Historical Museum
6 Kazan Cathedral on Red Square (photo stolen from Dad because my camera mysteriously deleted the first ~10 photos of my vacation!)
7 my photo after buying a file recovery program
8 Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Kremlin Wall in background
9 Corner Arsenal Tower
10 Alexander Gardens on west side of Kremlin
11 St. Basil's from the south side
12 view of Red Square from Bolshaya Moskvoretskiy Most; closest Kremlin tower is SS Constantine & Helen Tower
13 Moskva River from Bolshaya Moskvoretskiy Most
14 sun setting over the Kremlin
15 close up shot: Bell Tower of Ivan the Great is tallest, immediately to its left is the Assumption Cathedral
16 view from Bolshaya Kamennyy Most: Water Supplying Tower and Grand Kremlin Palace
17 Bolshoi Theatre
18 no shortage of vodka around... I bought the water in the middle for 38 Rubles at a nearby store. No thanks to your 360 Ruble water, Hotel Budapest
19 the next day: Novodevichy Convent
20 Luzhniki Stadium, host of 1980 Olympics
21 GUM department store at Red Square
22 Monument to Minin and Pozharsky, who expelled the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from Moscow in 1612, paving the way for the Romanov Dynasty
23 internal staircase in St. Basil's
24
25 inside one of the onion domes
26 Red Square with St. Nicholas Tower, Corner Arsenal Tower, and Historical Museum in the background
27 GUM department store on east side of Red Square
28 me and St. Basil's
29 Epiphany Cathedral
30 Ploshchad Revolutsii Metro Station
31 Victory Park, WWII memorial
32 still at Victory Park
33 Arbatskaya Metro Station
34
35 just inside the Borovitskaya Tower, about to tour the Kremlin Armoury Chamber
36 Pushkin statue on Tverskaya
37 my hotel
38 dinner at the adjoining Peter I hotel
39 Trinity Bridge and Tower, about to enter the Kremlin (which had been closed, except for the Armoury, the day before)
40 Assumption Cathedral, and the Tsar Cannon, cast in 1586 in Moscow
41 Patriarch's Palace and the Twelve Apostles' Church
42 Archangel Cathedral - Royal Necropolis housed here
43 Annunciation Cathedral
44 Assumption Cathedral - inaugurations of Tsars held here
45 Tsar Bell, commissioned by the niece of Peter the Great
46 Faceted Chamber and Assumption Cathedral with some Russian troops
47 State Kremlin Palace
48 Bell Tower of Ivan the Great
49 different angle of Bell Tower, Senate in the background
50 Secret Gardens
51 Grand Kremlin Palace and Annunciation Cathedral
52 Faceted Chamber
53 Resurrection Gate (a copy of the original, which was demolished by Stalin to allow parading troops easier access to Red Square)
