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Culture, Taiga, and Tundra: A Seminar on the Russian North |
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Moscow |
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We arrived in Moscow with two purposes in mind: 1) to recover from jet lag, and 2) to see as much of the city as possible before traveling north. While in Moscow, we stayed in a dormitory operated by Moscow State Pedagogical University located in southwest Moscow. From there we visited many historical and cultural sites in the city. This page contains a few photographs of places we visited while in Moscow for four days. |
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| Christ the Savior Cathedral - rebuilt in 1995 after have been destroyed in the 1930s. |
Church of the Epiphany - seen from a newly constructed walkway from the Metro station. |
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| Our tour of the Novodevichy Cemetery was led by this lady. She spoke Russian and German, but no English. With our Russian, German, and hand signals, we had a wonderful tour. |
Just prior to our arrival in Moscow, Boris Yeltsin died. We were able to visit his grave site during our cemetery tour. A much more elaborate memorial will be built at this site at a later date. |
Raiza Gorbachev is buried here. She died some years ago of cancer. She was, of course, the wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the former Soviet Union. |
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Victory Park was dedicated in 1995. It contains excellent museums and dioramas of WWII battle scenes. The museum is quite a distance from the nearest Metro station, we we needed a rest on the steps of the museum. |
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| No visit to Moscow is complete without going to Red Square and having a picture taken adjacent to St. Basil's Cathedral. It was a beautiful day. And, St. Basil's was spectacular! |
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