I don’t suppose many of you are browsing Russian blogs, so I thought I’d link some interesting pictures. The source is here and here is a Google translation. I also added some related links in case you are wasting time at work.
Swimming Pool “Moscow”. This pool was build instead of planned Palace of Soviets which was supposed to replace the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour,presently restored on the same spot.
House of Friendship with the Peoples of foreign countries
I’ve been meaning to use the word maven on this blog for a long time, so here goes:
Local antiquing maven and dealer Susan let me scan some of these random old photos before she puts them up for sale. Susan’s antiques can be found on Etsy, her Twitter, Facebook and blog, as well as at the River Market Antique Mall booth 622, but she highly recommends visiting the other 621 booths as well.
In 1989 I was in the military and the events in Berlin went largely unnoticed in our little installation. We watched the news as long as it didn’t distract us from the our main occupation – counting days until the discharge. 20 years later, when the excitement of breaking down a hated symbol of the Cold War died down many people are still not sure if it was a good thing.
In a poll this year, 50 percent of easterners agreed with the statement that “East Germany had more good sides than bad sides.” Eight percent signed off on the statement: “People there were happier and better off than today in reunified Germany.”
Just as some easterners long for their lost paradise, many westerners think they would have been better off without reunification.
In the end, the Wall couldn’t really exist any longer and the resentment most likely resides in the generation who had to bear the brunt of the reunification and all the hardships associated with it. History is moving along and today is a good day to take a look back at the way it was just a short 20 years ago. The image below was painted in 1990, later destroyed and was being repainted last summer.
The best and the funniest movie about that time is the award-winning Good Bye Lenin! It’s truly worth suffering through the subtitles.
Continuing with the subject of random vehicle photos altered with annoying photo filters, here is an awesome moving piece of art. This Gulliver-like Jesus sitting in the low-flying cloud, winged angels leading people out of their coffins with lids still attached, and even a bible-gripping Yosemite Sam, could be yours if you manage to locate the owners phone number.
Manezhnaya Square. Hotel “Moscow”
Central Lenin Museum. State Historical Museum
The old building of Moscow State University
Mayakovsky Square and monument to VV Mayakovsky
Building Museum Battle of Borodino panorama
Swimming Pool “Moscow”. This pool was build instead of planned Palace of Soviets which was supposed to replace the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour,presently restored on the same spot.
House of Friendship with the Peoples of foreign countries
V.I.Lenin State Library of the USSR
Karl Marx Prospect with the monument to Karl Marx
Sverdlov Square. Bolshoi Theater.
Gorky Central Park of Culture and Recreation
Andrei Rublev Museum(formerly Andronikov Monastery)
Planetarium
Chkalov Street
Komsomolskaya Square
Monument to the worker and a farmer woman. She is holding a sickle and he has a hammer. Hammer and sickle-get it?
Monument in honor of the Space Development
Dzerzhinsky Square
Moscow City’s Palace of Pioneers and schoolchildren
Student dormitories Patrice Lumumba University.
South-West Suburbs
Lomonosov Prospect
Leninsky Prospect.Public is greeting Cosmonauts returning from space.
Leninsky Prospect. Department store “Moscow”
Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye (XVI century)
Highway Circling around the city.
The image below was painted in 1990, later destroyed and was being repainted last summer.
