Elbrus Expedition Dispatch
June 29, 2015 – Some Scenes from Around Red Square Today
Todd, Heather, Nic and Kristen took off from the hotel to explore Moscow this morning. Everything that we want to see is walking distance from the hotel, although they will no doubt ride a few stops on the Moscow Metro just to check out the beauty of the stations there. They will likely go to Gorky Park as well.
And certainly Red Square, which is right across the street.
Here are a few scenes from our area today.
The Bolshoi Theater today.
Walking towards the entrance to the Red Square from our hotel
The State Historical Museum
Napoleon didn’t make it – nor did Hitler 130 years later
The anniversary of German invasion of USSR in 1941 was only one week ago today, on June 22. The 70 Anniversary of the end of WWII was last month
Lenin’s Mausoleum. It is closed for cleaning on Monday’s but we will go first thing tomorrow before we depart for the Caucasus. We will have Vladimir send us off to Mount Elbrus
St. Basil’s today
There are tourists from all over the world here.
Russian family doing portraits by the Kremlin Wall
The changing of the guard
The construction underway at GUM department Store is significant
At GUM, working to get the window display at the Breguet
Meanwhile, still in Russia but far, far away on Mount Elbrus, Vladimir sent us this picture from a few days ago of our “Barrel” on the mountain. A lot of snow this year! We will be on our way tomorrow!