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Understanding Russia through Everyday Life
Sunday Monday
Our last full day in Moscow! We started with a visit to Lenin's Tomb. He was still there — looking as waxen as ever.
(Seeing him does give one a strange feeling. He looks too small and "peaceful" ever to have shaken the world to its
foundations.)
 Statue of Marshal Zhukov just outside Red Square. We took this photo as we stood in line to see Lenin. (The line is much shorter now than it was before the collapse of the communist system, but it can still be quite long!) |
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 After our "meeting" with Lenin, we went to Izmailovo Park for some serious last-minute shopping — for those who still had any room in their suitcases. Here, Jessica and Jill check out some matryoshka dolls. |
 We ate our last dinner in a small restaurant on the 10th floor of our hotel. This is the view of part of the Kremlin and Christ the Savior Cathedral from the restaurant window. |
 We celebrated Jeff's 38th — or was it his 48th? — birthday at our last meal together. Alas, the photo of him getting another kiss from a lovely Russian woman (Nadya this time) didn't turn out. |
After dinner we went to the "Old
Circus." The acrobatic and trapeze acts in particular were spectacular.
Once again the group was impressed. Several people were not able to attend the circus for various reasons, which meant that we had some tickets to spare. Fortunately, I was able to find a family — grandmother, mother, and son — who were hoping to get tickets. At first they insisted on paying, but I told them that the tickets were a gift for the boy from a group of American teachers. (Tickets were fairly expensive for most Russian families). As they left, the boy said, "Thank you very much" in very good English. — Ron Pope, Trip Leader |
Depart Moscow for the US.
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