Today was the first day we were able to get down to the center of Moscow. Paul Richardson, Elysabeth and I were accompanied by our friend Yaroslav Paliy. We traveled by bus and Metro to the Kremlin and Red Square. We didn't take the time to go inside the Kremlin today (hopefully in the next couple of days), but we did go inside St. Basil's Cathedral (pictured above). It has been very cloudy and overcast since we've been here but when we stepped outside I snapped this picture -the best of the day (click photo to enlarge).
This city is so impressive - all the buildings are massive and communicates so clearly the Soviet power. One observation I found humorous is that the tomb of Lenin, on one side of Red Square, faces GUM (formerly the State Department Store), the most impressive shopping mall I've ever seen. (Move over, Caruso!) Lenin must roll in his grave daily to look across at this monument to capitalism. Needless to say, a lot has changed in Moscow in the past 20-30 years.
For more pictures of our time in Moscow, click here.
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