You’ve been warned by the title of this post!
My first view of the Bolshoi
Detail of the fence by a church
The Kremlin walls
Closer to the Kremlin
Outside the Kremlin
Outside the Kremlin
Heading to the Kremlin entrance
Kremlin tower
Another view of the Kremlin
Architechtural detail near the Armory
The Kremlin
Inside the Kremlin, not yet at the churches
Another peak in the Kremlin
The first of many Kremlin churches
A square filled with churches in the Kremlin
One of the lovely Kremlin churches
Looking out at the Kremlin walls from inside
Frescoes
The bell tower
I’m at the Kremlin!
Lots of domes…
More frescoes and domes
Frescoes!
In the square
View of me with Kremlin churches
Me by another church
Another view of me in the square
Tree and domes
The canon on the other side of the Bell Tower
Looking back into the square
The cracked bell
A better view of the engraving
Now you can see that it really is cracked
Past the churches to government buildings
One last glimpse of frescoes
Parliament building (not the Duma)
Looking at government buildings
The working part of the Kremlin
Towards Red Sqaure
A long view down a side street for government employees only
Kremlin tower
Heading into Red Square
A broad view – St Basil in the background
First glimpse of St Basil
Red Square – picture the 20th century history!
Looking at St Basil’s
St Basil’s and GUM (the department store)
Doesn’t look real, does it?
Snow globe church
The business side of the Kremlin
Looking toward Lenin’s mausoleum
Red Square
The weird procession of cars that closed of Red Square
The cars going around in circles
And again…
A closer view of St Basil’s
And closer yet
This view shows the statue of Minin and Pozharsky
Outside Red Square
Side road into the square
The Bolshoi
Memorial to victims of the secret police
Lubyanka, HQ of the KGB and an island in the “Gulag Archipelago”
The entrance to the Gulag Museum
Entrance to the Gulag Museum
The Gulag
A map of how many people were affected
Reconstruction of a Gulag prison camp room
More of the Gulag reconstruction
So many people in Red Square, and this is a good day!
Lenin’s tomb
GUM
Pushkin and his wife
One of Stalin’s Seven Sisters (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs with lots of satellite dishes
Another view of the wedding cake building
Kremlin at night
Red Square
Red Square
St Basil’s
Lenin’s Tomb
GUM
Red Square
Looking into the Kremlin at night
Shadows
The Kremlin
St Basil’s
View from St Basil’s – another of the Seven Sisters is visible
View from St Basil’s
View of Red Square from St Basil’s
Library
A glimpse of Moscow traffic
A view of Moscow that’s not Red Square or the Kremlin
Walking to the Pushkin Museum
The Pushkin Museum
Heading back to the hotel
trails untrod 