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Can I just say once more, Moscow.. is AMAZING! Nothing screams Moscow as loud as Art and Communist Art!!!! With Metro stations that are so beautiful, they leave you in awe. In high school we learned that communism is something that should be feared, but having seen some of the wonders they have created, I implore you to decide for yourself... so come explore with us on what we have colloquially dubbed our “communist day”. The theme park we visit is VDNKh with a 100m titanium obelisk 'To the Conquerors of Space’, built in 1964 to commemorate the launch of Sputnik. Then for dinner, visit with us the famous Café Pushkin with all its beauty!
Airbnb in Moscow, $60 per night
The Airbnb was prime location. It was old but great!
How fantastic is our view! The old mixed with the new!
To start our communist day, we begin at Moscow Kiyevskaya railway station
Look at the detail on this! Celebrations of the people!
I am always so amazed in Moscow, that no one graffities the metro stations! If this was anywhere else in the world it would be destroyed by now..
Arriving at our communist destination - Vystavka Dostizheniy Narodnogo Khozyaystva (VDNKh) which is a trade show and amusement park where the achievements of Russia are displayed!
How incredible is this!
The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNKh) – how incredible is the fountain - People's Friendship Fountain! Built in 1939, VDNKh was designed to show the socialist economy and lifestyle.
So each one of the buildings represents a former soviet country.. each with different things to offer! They were so interesting!
Armenia – how amazing is this!
We suspect Turkmenistan but are unsure, if anyone knows let us know!
Republic of Belarus!!!
A rocket from space!! The Cosmonautics Museum shows interesting space items such as the first Soviet rocket engine and the moon rover Lunokhod.
Lenin’s monument!
Fallen Monument Park – Moscow. Full of monuments from communist times!
showing the oppression the victims of fascism felt..
So many interesting monuments!
“Slava Trudu” – loosely translates to “Celebrate effort”
This one is typical Soviet Union - grandiose!
Some monuments to women!
Peter the Great Statue commemorating 300 years of the Russian Navy, which Peter the Great established.
Lepim I varim for an amazing Russian menu – pelmeni (dumplings)!
Lepim I varim was featured in Lonely Planet, they make the pelmeni fresh!
People of all cultures came here, and there was not an empty seat! We had to wait!
It tasted amazing!
It tasted muchhh better than it looks! (it looks plain but I can assure you, it was not!)
how amazing is this!
We found some soviet ice cream!! – and some drinks!
In my heart, this scene will never dull.
It is an art gallery itself, never in the world will there be such beautiful architecture for the everyday people to enjoy!
To finish our day, we visited Café Pushkin! And we recommend everyone to do so at least once in their lifetime! It was insanely beautiful! Dedicated to the brilliance of the Russian poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, a marvel.
we dined in the library!!!!! I am a huge fan of libraries!!!
This was a dream!
As angels dance and mimic life, the library still whispers I loved you once..
The drinks were INCREDIBLE!
The Beef Stroganoff was impeccable – the best we have ever tried! And Yugoboy makes a mean Beef Stroganoff!
The duck was incredible!!! It tasted like duck and apple infused in perfection!
I cannot believe this was the view, you could hear Pushkin here saying, “I loved you once, nor can this heart be quiet” – nor could mine!
They even had live music of violins and an actual woman dressed in the most beautiful dress playing the lyre!
The Kremlin, never gets old. A love as deep as this, as true, as tender between a tourist and a place cannot exist more perfectly than here.
Typically, amazing.
TsUM shopping centre!
On every corner extravagance!
In Pushkin’s words:
“A Poet lives in feeble thrall
To people's empty vanities”
To watch the night underneath those starry stars,
And love each star equally…
To visit stranger’s in amidst emptiness and love but a moment more.
As I do, Moscow – Yugogirl out!