The first walk was around Park Kultury metro station. Many of the buildings are looking rather sad and dilapidated, but it was interesting all the same.
The State University for Linguistics but built in 1771 as a palace for General Yeropkin, an advisor to Catherine the Great, with a small war memorial in the garden.
This wooden house is the Turgenev museum, a 19th century writer who lived here with his mother
Moscow's olderst brewery - Tolstoy, who lived next door, got up when he heard the factory hooter, and used the phone there too.
The gateway
Tolstoy's house
17th century Weavers' Guild House
The Weavers' Guild commissioned this colourful church of St Nicholas
These last two pictures are of the Proviantskiye Magazini, an old provisions warehouse. It is now a branch of the Moscow History Museum and was very interesting to visit. Sadly no photographs but lots of maps and artefacts from the city.
All together an interesting walk and an area to explore again.
As you can see from the photos there was still a lot of snow around. It became really good now for the children to build with and we had some spectacular snowmen and contructions in the playgound as you can see.
Admire the hat -it is one of mine that I don't wear any more
I heard shrieks at about ten o'clock one evening and saw these little people playing in the snow.
For weeks the temperature hung around zero so the icicles became quite spectacular. Every year, despite the cities best efforts, people die from being hit by falling ice. Sometimes it comes shooting down the drain pipes making one hec of a din before shooting out the bottom, taking the feet out from anyone walking by. Fortunately you can hear it coming down the metal pipes and it is quite spectacular as it shoots out the bottom.
Man walking on the roof opposite
I have found more photographs of interesting places we have been that I have not put up so I will endeavour to add some more in the next few days.
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