November 2002 - Moscow (Page 2)
View across Red Square of St Basils and GUM, formerly the state department store, now a mall.
Someone very russian looking in GUM.
The slightly scarey "Children as victims of the adults' vices". Expand the image to see it in its full weirdness.
Advanced Soviet telecommunications technology.
The House On The Embankment. Built in the constructivist style to house party workers after the revolution, they all disappeared on by one during Stalin's purges...
...probably stopping by here, at the KGB headquarters, before going to their show trials and whatever fate awaited them. Its now the headquarters of the FSB.
A very communist looking building.
What looks like a nuclear bomb welcomes you to the Polytechnical Museum.
A room full of detailed scale models of spacecraft at the Polytechnical Museum.
More beautifuly intricate space models.
A constructivist space station.
Soviet space helmet.
Sergiev Posad, one of the oldest and most important monasteries in Russia.
Interior of the Bolshoi Theatre.
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