Moscow

Overview of the city. Wonderful place and interesting. More "Russian" than St. Petersburg. I wish I had more time to stay and explore. First pic is the Bolshoi. I wanted to attend a performance, but I didn't stay in Moscow to do so. Then Moscow State University, one of Stalin's skyscrapers which sits up on Sparrow Hill. Then a view from Sparrow and a view from the same place of the new city (basically business and finance), a statue of Peter the Great along the Moskva River and the New Maidens convent. This is where upper class women were sent, especially when they were no longer wanted as a wife. "Get thee to a nunnery" was a real thing back thenЧитать далее