The trouble with Facebook is that it is keeping me away from here. I am posting photos there and bits of what I am up to. The photos: well, I wouldn’t post so many here anyway.
I recently spent a fantastic week in Moscow and have uploaded a lot of photos to Facebook. Here are just a few with a tiny commentary.
Firstly, my favourite painting from the Tretyakovsky Gallery
This is a portrait of VA Perovsky and I love his individuality. If you go to the gallery, just compare this portrait with the portraits of just about everyone else there!
Also from the Tretyakovsky Gallery but I was tired by this time so I took long range photos as I sat on a bench and zoomed in using the camera. Lazy way but smart and not an especially important painting!
Statue of Peter I: this is a MUST SEE statue. The Soviets and now the Russians have a monopoly on the world’s best statues, on average. Here’s one of their newest, on a bend in the Moscow River. It’s huge but I love it although most Muscovites don’t, apparently:
From the Polytechnicheski Museum … Felix the Cat?
Anyone know what this is? Answers on a postcard.
Metro sign:
From Moscow Zoo: my favourite bird photo
Another major statute, also at Moscow Zoo: Pushkin’s tales or something!
Well, there you are … some of what I did and where I went in Moscow. Fabulous weather, by the way, all week!
DW
