 State Duma Building (Parliament of Russia)
 Hotel Moskva designed by Aleksei Shchusev (1873-1949), Leonid Savelyev and Osvald Stapran between 1932 and 1935.
Legend has it that the architects designed two alternate facades to be presented to Stalin who signed his name across both pages.
Afraid to ask for clarification, the Hotels main facade on Manezh Square was built asymmetrically with the top left differing from the right.
I don't know how much truth this legend contains but there are definite differences in the design of both sides of the building -
There is a picture a little bit further down, that shows the whole building.
  Manezhnaya Square Alexandrovsky Sad. Here people can enjoy an artificial representation of the Neglinnaya Riverlined with characters of Russian fables designed by Zurab Tsereteli
 Alexandrovsky Sad Looking towards State Duma and Hotel Moskva
 From Manezhnaya Square looking towards Kremlin Looking towards the St. Basil Cathedral on Red Square
 Manezhnaya Square and the Moscow Manege in the background
 Manezhnaya Square Hotel National on the left, Duma on the right
 Detail of the facade of the Hotel National
 State Historical Museum
 Looking from the Resurrection Gate towards the Manezhnaya Square.
Sitting atop his horse is Marshall Gregory Zhukov (1896-1974), a World War II hero whose ashes are buried in the Kremlin Wall. Zhukov led the Russian Army in the defense of Moscow and later the defense of Stalingrad. For this he was appointed Marshal of the Soviet Union and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Army. He either planned or commanded most of the great victories that pushed the German Armies back to Berlin where he served as the Soviet Representative at the official German surrender. The statue was placed here to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the victory over Germany and the 100th anniversary of Zhukov's birth on December 1, 1996. He is shown here as he looked for the Red Square Victory Parade of 1945 when his horse trampled Nazi battle standards.
 Vendors next to the Resurrection Gate
 Matryoshka dolls of various kinds
   Ilya Glazunov Art Gallery   Fyodor Dostoyevsky sitting in front of the State Library
 Mikhail V. Lomonosov sitting in front of a building of the Moscow State University
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Ломоно́сов; 1711–1765)
was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions
to literature, education, and science.
 Krylov N.S. КРЫЛОВ Н.С.
(1802 — 1831)
Winter landscape (Russian winter) Зимний пейзаж (Русская зима) 1827 canvas, oil Холст, масло Painting ID 047 КОД КАРТИНЫ 047 from collection из собрания of Russian State museum Государственного Русского музея This painting is part of an installation called ArtTour that shows high quality reproductions of paintings that are part of the collection of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.
http://www.arttour.org/ (Russian only, but there is a map showing the
location of the paintings in the city) |