Having watched no small amount of American films and TV series lately, I feel this oft said phrase is rather fitting for my current situation... So with the lemons I find myself saddled with I'm attempting to make a palatable lemonade rather than sucking them straight and ending up with sour face, and failing lemonade I do know a rather wonderful recipe for Capirosskas.
So the three possible outcomes for the rest of my time in Moscow are :
-happiness (what I'm aiming for)
-sour/bitterness (what I'd like to avoid at all costs)
or vodka induced inebriation (I'd happily take it as a second choice)
So to keep myself busy my big plans are to make the most of the remaining time in Russia. To motivate and organise myself enough to actually pull this off I have created a list, expect to see them checked off with photos once I've actually done something!
THE LIST
- Lenin's Funeral train, Paveletsky Metro
- Matrioshka Museum, Pushkinskaya Metro
- Sculpture Park, Park Kultury Metro
- Tretyakov Gallery, Tretyakovskaya Metro
- Gorkey House Museum
- Glinka Museum of Musical Culture
- Glazunov Gallery, Kropotkinskaya Metro
and a few Cathedrals, Convents and Monasteries..
- Andronikov Monastery
Russian: Андро́ников монасты́
- Church of St John the Warrior, Oktyabrskaya Metro
Russian: Церковь Иоанна Воина
- Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Pushkinskaya Metro
- Church of the Trinity in Nikitniki, Kitay-Gorod Metro
- Choral Synagogue, Kitay-Gorod Metro
- Church of St Nicolas
Russian: Церковь Cвятителя Николая Чудотворца в Хамовниках
- Donskoy Monastery, Shabolovskaya Metro
- Kazan Cathedral, Ploschad Revolutsiy (I've seen this one a fair few times but never been inside)
Russian: Собо́р Каза́нской ико́ны Бо́жией Ма́тери
- Monastery of the Epiphany, - Novos Ploschad Revolutsiy
- Novodevichy Convent, Sportivnaya Metro
passky Monastery, Taganskaya Metro
- Old Believer Community, Ploschad Ilycha
- Upper St Peter Monastery, Checkhovskaya Metro
- Nikolskaya Monastery, Ploschad Revolutsiy
The first set of photos are from Новоде́вичий монасты́рь (Novodevichy Convent) a stonkingly beautiful set of churches with a hexagonal bell tower which was once the tallest building in Moscow (until Ivan the Great Bell Tower was raised) at 72m. It was a super cold January afternoon. Paulo, Djalma's cousin, was over from Brazil and we spent the morning in Izmailovo Market and then met Djalma later in the afternoon. We didn't make it outside the walls to look at the convent from across the pond, so I'll be heading back there fairly soon to take some more pictures.
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