the SECOND part is here now!!
After our windows shopping, we proceeded to the RED SQUARE.
The place in the black ring is the RED SQUARE. It was just near to the underground shopping complex (no. 42).
** Addition, no. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20-27, 29-35 are towers. Each tower has their own name! **
This photo was took just outside the shopping complex. the birds were very cute, they all look up to where? To the group of children which were busy eating their Mcdonald after their visits at the Kremlin. hahaha..THe birds were waiting for them to drop some food crunches from their burgers.
Red square was formed in 1493 when after one more conflagration prince Ivan III ordered to remove wooden buildings that were approching Kremlin wall, from the 250m wide area. It was forbidden to settle there since then but it was allowed to trade there and the initial name of the square was Torgovaya (Trading).
In 1918, victims of the revolutionary events in Russia were buried at the Kremlin wall and in 1924 a coffin with Lenin's body was displayed in a temporary mausoleum. Since then the Red square served also as a necropolis for statesmen and members of the party, military leaders and astronauts.
Red Square consists of State historical museum (no. 39), Gum Deparment Store (no. 43), Saint Basil's Cathedral (no. 40), Lobnoye mesto (Place of execution)and Lenin Mausoleum (no. 32)
Ta da!! This is one of the building in the Red Square. The State HIstorical Museum (no. 39). this is the front view of it. This view can be seen just when u came out from the shopping complex. This state historical museum is the largest national historical museum of the country, that was founded in 1872. Collection of the museum represents the history and culture of Russia from the ancient times till our days and is unique in terms of amount and value of museum exhibit. But we didnt go inside the museum cause the outside buildings are more attractive. hahaha...
On my way to enter the red square, i turned to the back and took the picture of the shopping complex. Johnny was taking Adeline's photo there. hehehe..
We were now in the center of the Red Square. Behind us is the State historical museum (the back view)
This is the Gum deparment Store. No. 43 in the map.
In front of it, there's a skating ring. What a nice ring it is. with nice background musics too.
The right side is the state historical museum, the left side is the Lenin's Mausoleum, we all came from the pathway between this 2 buildings. See, there was many people visiting this Red Square. Was snowing quite heavily.
The Lenin's Mausoleum where the Lenin's body was displayed. It is a stone Mausoleum which was constructed in 1930. It is one of the most ambiguous monuments of the Soviet past of Russia. Recently the question of Lenin's burial is raised more and more often, however, the mausoleum is still open (from 10 am till 1 pm except Monday, Friday, and Sunday)
The clock tower, called Spaskaya tower (no. 31 in the map)
Saint Basil's Cathedral, no.40 in the map, is one of the most vivid and famous monuments of the old Russian architecture. Its silhoutte is the visual symbol of Moscow and Russia. The cathedral was laid in 1552 in honour of the conquest of Kazan and Astrakhan kingdoms by Ivan the Terrible. At first the name of the cathedral was of the cathedral of the Virgin Protection. Later in one of the side-altars God's fool Vasily Blazhenny was burrid, and the cathedral acquired its present name. According to the chronicles, the authors of the cathedrals were architects Postnik and Barma. The legend says that Ivan the Terrible who admired the beauty of the cathedral ordered to blind the architects so they could never construct such a masterpiece again. St. Basil's cathedral represents the symmetric ensemble of 8 churches, which surround the ninth church that is the tallest. The churches are crowned with domes, each of which is decorated with cornices, kokoshniks, windows and bays. The walls of the cathedral are decorated with oil paintings and frescos of the 16th - 19th centuries, there are about 400 icons in the cathedral, which represent the best examples of the Novgorod and Moscow icon-painting schools. Since 1923, there's a museum in the cathedral, however, church service is held there rarely.
Our group photos. Besides us is the Monument to Minin and Pozharsky. This bronze statue by sculptor Ivan Martos that stands in front of the Saint Basil's Cathedral commemorates Kuzma Minin and prince Dmitry Pozharsky, who gathered the all RUssian volunteer army in the time of Polish intervention and who contributed to the victory of Russia over Poland in 1612.
The view from the St Basil's Cathedral.
After that, we went inside the Gum Deparment store. Again, windows shop. hahaha..
The entrance of the store.
The interior design of the shopping complex. The shopping complexes here always decorated with a fountain on the ground flooor. haha...
After that, we went into one of the shops here, the grocery shop,
This is it....lets go inside....let me remind you, the stuff inside here are extremely, EXTREMELY expensive!!! But, still, there were people did the marketing inside!! Must be EXTREMELY RICH fellow..hahaha...
The bread in this shop is specially nice! no wonder it's so expensive!!I think you guys can see the price tags there..hahaha..
The cake...see the price? ok ok..enough with the prices..hahaha...
The cakes also nicer....
The chocolates.....
The interior decoration and design of the shop...
The chocolates corner...we have the same chocolates here in kursk, but only one thing is different...the price...hahaha....so much different...
The wine corner....
Sea foods corner...fresh~
Fresh meats corner..
The pork leg...ahaha...everything was arranged so nicely! no wonder the prices are so different from other shops..
Salads~
Vegies...nice and fresh....
Fruits corner....almost every type of fruits are available here...even the tropical fruits such as papaya, belimbing, pine apple, rambutan!
There are more in this shops, but i only took some interesting part of it..haha...well, like usual, we all came out with empty hands...cause really too expensive for us...
After the shopping ocmplex, we went back to our hostel for checking in...took our metro back to the MEtro station near our hostel...checked in, brought our luggage to our room~
We had a 5 sitters room....3 single beds, one double decker...
Adeline and Johnny had chose their own bed...WE WERE given a bedsheet, pillow case, blanket case and a towel. Adeline was busy putting up the bedsheet and others...While johnny? what's he doing? i m not so sure..ahhaha...
The double decker....i took the top one...this is my first time sleeping on the double decker, the top bed....i think it's very nice to sleep there...hahaha...
All of us rested for a while, and planned to go out for a walk again at 6 pm. We plan to go to Arbat street, This arbat street has variety of shops, mainly souvenirs shops....and some restaurants and some others shops...
On our way to the arbat street.
The arbat street.
These are the most popular souvenirs from here....want one?? tell me...i will buy one for you...ahhaha...
Another one...big size one....you see, it can fits so many many different size of 'patung' inside the biggest one...hahaha...
The chinese restaurant here....we went inside , not to eat, but to check on the menu and the price...ahhaha...very very expensive, some more, very smoky!
After that, we stop by at the mcdonald again, to buy for myself tonight's and tomorrow's breakfast. Now mcdonal got this promotion, cheese and chicken burgers for only 20 roubles each.....i bought 3 chicken and 3 cheese burgers...ahhaha..quite nice though....
Way back to the Metro station to go back to our hostel....On our walk back to the hostel, we stopped a 24 hour grocery shop, to get mineral water......
The metro card....haha...
Okay...the end of the first day of MOSCOW....on the second day, we planned to go to MOSCOW ZOO and lunch buffet in a chinese restaurant....
Stay Tune~
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