This is a late addition to the blog, because I simply forgot to post it.
However, I wanted a record of our apartment at 11/13 Bolshoi Afanasievsky Pereluk, 14th floor, unit #113 that overlooked the Moscow River, the Arbat and the Kremlin.
We have been home five and a half months. The memories and significant details (both good and bad) have already evaporated. It was only because someone asked about our experience this past weekend that I even thought to provide this photographic update.
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| Our apartment building exterior at 11/13 Bolshoi Afanasievsky. Our unit is the third from the top, third from the left where you see the open balcony. The window to the right of the balcony was our bedroom window. |
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| Next to our apartment was the Burganov statue studio and museum. There is statuary right in front of our building, as well as dispersed around the neighborhood. |
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| Two busts in front our park-like front yard. |
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| Two more busts in front of our building. |
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| Looking up our street. |
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| The elevator lobby on the 14th floor. To the right and down the hall is our apartment entrance. Apartment owners on several other floors decorated their elevator lobbies with plants, statues, paintings... for a decidedly friendlier, inviting look. |
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| Our hall and apartment door on the left. To the right of the door is a light switch that illuminates the hall in front of our apartment. We found that weird, because at times, our hallway would be pitch black when no one had on their light. |
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| Exterior of our padded door. We must have crazy to live here! |
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| Interior of our padded door. This little entrance foyer had a bench for shoe storage and sitting, a coat rack, and a mirror to make sure (in the Russian manner) that one looked presentable upon leaving and entering the apartment. |
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| From the entrance foyer looking into the bathroom. |
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| The bathroom: hot water heater right inside the bath/shower made for a cramped bathing experience. |
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| The bathroom: toilet with two flush speeds, bidet and heated drying rack. |
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| The bedroom: looking back into the entrance foyer. |
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| The bedroom: uncomfortable double bed very low to the ground. |
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| The bedroom: my view upon waking. |
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| The kitchen is between the bedroom and the living room. Fridge is twice as large as the one we had in St. Petersburg. Gas stove and oven. Electric tea kettle. The kitchen also served as my office where I wrote this blog and studied Russian. |
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| The kitchen from the window looking back into the entrance foyer. The washer is just visible on the right. |
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| The living room and TV. The couch on the right served as Alexi's bed when she stayed with us. |
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| The living room. Behind the louvered doors were shelves where we placed our clothes, racks to hang clothing, and drying racks which we took out when we needed to dry our clothes. |
