Renaissance Moscow

... interesting facts, Julia and I headed to the old Ukraine Hotel (now the site of the brand new Renaissance). The hotel is spectacular and has stunning views of Moscow. Julia and I went up to the 31st floor and walked around the restaurant for a 360 ...

... for theatre and the arts I'm told and there's certainly no shortage of places to enjoy them. The architecture ranges from Italian Renaissance styles to 19th Century Art Deco brickwork, to the grey, square lines of the Soviet minimalist style. It's all ...

... Italian architect finished the cathedral in 1508, mingling the traditional Russian style with the classical sensibility of the Italian Renaissance. The interior fresco style, painted in 1652, records everyday Russian life of the period. The Cathedral was ...

... precious items from the last 700 years are housed. Layton's favorite part of the Armory were the old pieces of armory from the renaissance time as well as some of the diamonds and jewels. Jana could not make up her mind, but was highly impressed with the ...

... Soviet era cars buzzing around full speed on the highways or parked along streets.  Architecture spoke of dazzling European renaissance style, intermingled with the slight heaviness of a rigid communist style.   I even ran into Dostoevsky on a ...

... on this trip.  The first time, we were so engrossed in getting Laura and Matthew, we didn't hardly sight see at all in Moscow except a few hours between our arrival and train to Penza.  We purposely worked in a second day in Moscow on this trip, ...

... Russia was compared to Europe and how much more Eastern cultures seemed to influence them.  Up to the 1700's the Renaissance and the enlightenment had had no impact on them, only with the reign of Peter the Great did ...

  It is a very beautiful city but very very cold indeed. God. The local girls are damn pretty as ...

... him believe that he could win against such a Super Power while already fighting on many european fronts. But after visiting both Moscow and St.Petersburg, and realizing how important those two cities are to Russia, it became obvious to me that had they ...

... fruit and flower vases. There were of course a few gems that make you stop in your tracks. Most of these were Italian renaissance works. I think this was mainly due to their scale. Many of them are massive and depict detailed scenes of passion, violence ...

... a very suiting description and the place is filled with all sorts of caricatures of famous people (but painted in a somewhat renaissance-ish style) including a ceiling fresco of Brezhnev kissing Fidel Castro.  Very cool place and the food was good ...

... roof tops. There seemed to be artwork from every culture and every period imaginable. There was Egyptian, prehistoric, Italian renaissance, German, French, Flemish, Dutch, Russian, modern, Japanese, Oriental, and American art. There was just so much to ...

... of Outside devoted to travel. Opening to a random page, here's the first piece of copy that caught my eye: Renaissance funhogs, brace yourselves: This trip, combining three days of mountain biking with five days of whitewater rafting on the Colorado ...

... we are happy, it was a 3 hour drive. Mon night...... Today Dubrovnik history, and then we hopped a bus and went exploring a Renaissance garden about a half hour outside of town, tomorrow a boat for the Elaphiti islands, next day a plane, a very very ...

... the Peacock Clock (with mushrooms that tell time), the throne of Peter the Great (by himself), the Throne Room, Italian Renaissance art (with works by DaVinci) and French Impressionism (with works by Matisse and Van Gogh).   ...

... the ridiculous Winter Palace, Hermitage. The Winter Palace is so large you get lost trying to navigate the halls of Renaissance classics, Egyptian artifacts before stumbling upon a room full of Picasso's, Matisse's and Van Gogh's. We have never ...

... of amber, to change their texture and color, as were the frames too, the walls, ceiling decorations (give or take more renaissance style paintings). So I didn't see the 180 fountains (all powered by gravity, mind you)... but the city of palaces didn't ...

... as a few Picassos, Leonardos and Titians. Add a Monet, a Michalangelo and just about every other big name artist from the Renaissance period onwards and you have a priceless collection. Painting-wise, my favourite had to be good old Hubert Robert, with ...

... with great black eyes, pools of oblivion which you just want to dive into. We arrived in Tbilisi under an amazing renaissance sky, lapis lazuli blue, streaked with gold and vermilion. "Thats the famous Georgian sky. Imagine what it will be like in ...