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From Russia with Love-or not so much in this City!
Unfortunately, Moscow for me wasn't a great experience. Although I enjoyed seeing the sights, and as part of this journey I’m glad to have experienced the city – but as a traveller it is not somewhere I would ever consider going back to. Understandably another big city and a foreign one at that, if the prices weren’t enough to put …
Red Square and State Museum
Suffering from a dreadful cold today. Not flu-ey yet but threatening. Still, I only have two days in Moscow so I headed out to Red Square which is close to my hotel. Spent a couple of hours wandering around, then wandered through GUM; the state department store. It's pretty huge and is full of Western brand names, Levi, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent. …
Red Square
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There were laser light shows, inside and out of the Kremlin walls and red square. With live music and a fair share of the 20 million residents of Moscow.
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We get closer to God
... the Kremlin. The surprise is that this cathedral was built in 1994-1999. The original church was completed on this site in 1860 and fitted out in 1883. In 1931 Stalin had it demolished and there were plans to build a gigantic statue to Lenin on the site. The foundations for this were started, but thankfuly interrupted by the war. After the fall of the Soviet Union in the '90s, one of the first things they did was to rebuild the original church in all its glory. It is a very ...
Treasures of the Tretyakov
... sculptors in favor of artists from Western Europe, especially France and Italy. The highlights of the collection are priceless Russian and Byzantine ikons. Our guide was fantastic. She was at least 80 years old but was the best local guide we had on the entire cruise. She was incredibly well versed and spoke with passion and knowledge as she critiqued each artist's works.
Dinner is at 7 P.M. tonight on shipboard. At 9 P.M. we leave for the optional "Moscow by ...