Moscow - Other Places

Monday, 17 September 2018

We walked from the Kremlin over to the reconstructed Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Fountain in Alexander Garden, at the base of the Kremlin's wall.

St. Vladimir, the prince who founded the Russian Orthodox Church. This statue stands just outside the Kremlin .

View of the Kremlin from the Patriarshii Most (Bridge). Note all the parked tour buses.

Off the other side of the bridge is the controversial Monument to Peter the Great. Peter the Great hated Moscow, but St. Petersburg hated the statue, so it went to Moscow. Erected in 1997, it is rumored (denied by official sources) that the sculptor originally tried to sell it to an American city in 1992 to commemorate Columbus, but revised his design to make it Peter the Great. The red building to the left of the statue is the Red October Chocolate Factory building, which now holds apartments, art galleries, and restaurants.

The Cathedral of Christ the Savior. It was blown up by Stalin to make way for a huge Lenin memorial (100 m high) that was never built. In the 1990s it was reconstructed as an exact duplicate of the destroyed cathedral.

As the sun was setting, we bused over to the Sparrow Hills in southeast Moscow.

Moscow State University dominates this area. The main building is one of seven Stalin-Gothic skyscrapers in Moscow.

The skyscrapers of the Moscow International Business Center are nearby.

The panoramic view from the Ulitsa Kosygina overlook.