Tuesday, December 22, 2009


I like this photo of Moscow taken Dec. 2009 so much that I want to keep it here. On the right is one long wall of the Kremlin with one of the busiest highways in Moscow between the wall and the Moscow River. On the left is Christ the savior cathedral once torn down by Stalin and rebuilt about a decade ago. All the great church-ey events of Moscow take place there - funerals, visits of Putin etc. There is a hyrdo-electric plant blowing out the steam and the 2nd tower to the right of it is one of the "Seven sisters" apartment buildings built by Stalin to ape U.S. modernism. One has recently been turned into a Hilton Hotel. The photo is taken for Moscow Times newspaper from a bridge I crossed many times while in Moscow. It was right next to my hotel.

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