Moscow 2001
A day in
the city
April 24, 2001
St Basil's Cathedral
Kuzma
Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky
(led the army that ejected the occupying
Poles from the Kremlin in 1612)
Kazan Cathedral
Marshall
Zhukov statue in front of
the State History Museum
Honor guard for the Unknown Soldier
Kremlin
tower
(Kremlin Palace of Congresses in background)
Kremlin wall
South view of the Kremlin
GUM department store
Monument to Peter the great
detail of Peter
Christ the
Savior Cathedral
(rebuilt over the site of a swimming pool built by Stalin
Novodevichy Convent
statue of
Brezhnev in statue park
Brezhnev, Leonid
Ilich
(1906-1982), general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)
from 1964 to 1982. His time in office is noted as an era of both stability and
stagnation in the domestic and foreign policies of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR).
the
"White House"
(House of Government of the Russian Federation)
as seen from my room on the 46th floor of the Ukraine Hotel
