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Random photos #226 – 235
These are the photos I (Chris) took and posted on Facebook. The series was started in March of 2013. There is no theme – just something random and visually interesting. We gave each a title and noted where it was taken (to the extent we could remember the city). random photo #226 – david’s –…
Moscow House of Books, Московский дом книги
If you have been following this blog for a while, you would know that I(Chris) like to check out local bookstores when visiting a new city/country. For example, in Budapest, London, Kuala Lumpur… for more bookstores, click on Books to find them. In Moscow, I stumbled upon this massive bookstore after having dinner in the touristy…
Moscow metro, part 3 – Московско метро snapshots
If you have been following the blog, you would have read about two Moscow metro stations – Komsomolskaya and Mayakovskaya – as well as the exhibition Subterranean Monument at the museum of architecture. Click on it to read. As I did not really have a chance to explore many of the interesting stations during my…
Moscow metro, part 2, Маяковская
Mayakovskaya (Маяковская) is considered to be one of the most beautiful in the Moscow metro system. The name as well as the design is a reference to Futurism and its prominent Russian exponent, the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. The station was built as part of the second stage of the Moscow Metro expansion, opening on 11…
