A cold, clear morning. I went up Bolshoi Afanasievsky to the New Arbat and the Dom Knigy. I bought Lex her Russian text book, finally bought my text book and some Masha e Medved trinkets for Andrea. Stopped at Prime one last time for "kafe s-boy."
Later, we finally visited the Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer. While admittedly gorgeous and impressive, it's like the beautiful, high-priced model that appears on all the magazine covers: beautiful, but you know how much pain was required to achieve those looks.
The workmanship is inspiring, but it's weird to think the place was just built 15 years ago; a copy of the original built in the late 19th Century as a memorial to the War of 1812 and destroyed by Stalin in the 1930s.
Typically one might marvel at an old church knowing it may have been erected centuries ago using Old World craftsmanship that has stood the test of time. At Redeemer, one marvels at the time, money and resources used to construct this church in the here and now.
We then made our way over the bridge, braving the wind, and on to the Tretyakov Gallery for follow up research. After our time at the museum, we walked along Piatnitskaya and ate Uzbek food before heading home for the night.
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| BUILT BETWEEN 1994 AND 1997 AT A COST OF MORE THAN $200 MILLION. |
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| ON THE PATRIARCH'S BRIDGE. |
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| OVERLOOKING THE RIVER AND KREMLIN. |
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| BRIDE ON A BRIDGE. |
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| INTO THE KREMSKOY... |
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| "TRETYAKOVING" |
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| IVAN THE TERRIBLE BY MARK ANATOLSKY. |
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| STORY PARTY. |
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| METRO TEATRALNAYA TRANSFER TO THE RED LINE. |
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