Russia 12-Red Square
July 18-21, 2008
What you have all been waiting for: Moscow's famous Red Square. Although the walls are red, it was not named because of them; it was named after an ancient Russian word, "red" meaning beautiful. We walked around the outside of the walls first looking for the way in. We stopped at a flower garden for a picture.
We found an entrance. After admiring the archetecture we walked under the archway leading to square's vast cobble stone expanse.
Looking right was a red building used as a museum; to the left was the newly constructed Kazan Cathedral, a 17th century replica of the church built in honor of the Kazanskaya Icon to commemorate Tsar Mikhail Romanov's victory over the Poles and Lithuanians in 1612, and later destroyed by the Bolsheviks. Beyond is the largest department store you can imagine. We turned and looked back to the twin towers.
Then, we turned again stretching our view Russia's most famous landmark, St. Basil's Cathedral
. It was built in the 16th century on Red Square by Ivan the Terrible to commemorate his successful military campaign against the Tartar Mongols in the besieged city of Kazan, its mass of brightly painted onion domes and turrets called to us.
What you have all been waiting for: Moscow's famous Red Square. Although the walls are red, it was not named because of them; it was named after an ancient Russian word, "red" meaning beautiful. We walked around the outside of the walls first looking for the way in. We stopped at a flower garden for a picture.
We found an entrance. After admiring the archetecture we walked under the archway leading to square's vast cobble stone expanse.
Looking right was a red building used as a museum; to the left was the newly constructed Kazan Cathedral, a 17th century replica of the church built in honor of the Kazanskaya Icon to commemorate Tsar Mikhail Romanov's victory over the Poles and Lithuanians in 1612, and later destroyed by the Bolsheviks. Beyond is the largest department store you can imagine. We turned and looked back to the twin towers.Then, we turned again stretching our view Russia's most famous landmark, St. Basil's Cathedral
. It was built in the 16th century on Red Square by Ivan the Terrible to commemorate his successful military campaign against the Tartar Mongols in the besieged city of Kazan, its mass of brightly painted onion domes and turrets called to us.
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