Samurai, lights and ice

We made the effort to get out and about in they city. Passport magazine has an interesting article about a Samurai exhibition so we went to find it. In a building behind Gum we found the red flags outside. Here are some of the suits of armour.

The masks were very strange. A 3D film showed how the Samurai was dressed, building up the layers.

These screens and pictures are beautiful.

This model house was beautiful as were these simple flower arrangements. The flowers were silk but still charming.

The final room had some wonderful kimono on display - I think they were all for men but exquisite. They were difficult to photograph as they had a lovely sheen about them but here are some to see. I particularly like the very modern one.

Having finished the exhibition we then set off on a walk planned in the Moscow News. It was like the one we did last term near the embassy. This one was designed to be done at night. We started late afternoon as it was very slippery underfoot.

First Peter showed me where he is based and nearby was this statue of Adam and Eve outside Novokuznetskaya station.

We then headed onto the island in the middle of the Moscow River. There we saw one of the many power stations which keep the city alight and nearby the Church of St George. Sadly we were a bit early so it was not floodlit.

Note the 'classical' shaped wall in front of the chimneys.

Many buildings in Moscow are lit to show off their architecture. This is a theatre we walked past just after the lights came on.

By now it was too dark to take more photos and getting rather cold, so we completed the walk as fast as we could to get something to eat the Chrisie Prudy before setting off home. We have decided to do the walk again when it is a bit warmer.

Sunday we hoped to go to an exhibition at the new Tretyakov but the queue was out the door so that is for another day. However we did find some more ice sculptures outside Gorky Park so to finish here they are.