Yet another business trip to Moscow, Russia, with pictures taken while sightseeing. The weather was cold and dreary most of the time, although it was colder and drearier still when I went to Russia again in December 2000. Still, I managed to contract a terrible cold on this trip.
St. Basil's again, this time with snow on it here and there.
I think the little building in the foreground is an portable toilet.
But I don't know for sure.
When the weather is bad, the obvious thing to do is to go to a museum.
The Tretyakov Gallery contains a large quantity of Russian artwork.
Among the treasures inside are very old Russian icons and--if I recall
correctly--some artwork painted on wood from ancient coffin lids.
Same deal as most places: You can't take pictures inside.
I did manage to bring home two tour books.
If you come by the office sometime, I'll let you take a look at them.
Jim Nolan, who was the Boeing KSC technician on this trip, can be seen
wearing a most un-Russian outfit in the foreground.
Somewhere near the Tretyakov Gallery is this building.
I have no idea what it is, but Ilia thought that I should take a
picture of it.
This is the same
asymmetrical building
close to Red Square as seen in
some of the pictures from my earlier trips.
By now, free enterprise has taken a hand, and the big sign on top
advertises Baltika, a local beer.
The Okhotnyi Ryad shopping center
is in the foreground.
More of Okhotnyi Ryad.
This time, of course, the fountains were off and partly filled with
ice and snow.
This is basically the same general area as
this shot taken when it was
much warmer.
Here I am on top of Okhotnyi Ryad, wearing my Government-issue
down-filled L.L. Bean "Maine Warden's Parka," reserved by the MSFC Laundry
for MSFC visitors to Russia.
The Laundry quit carrying the Russia coats, and this one eventually
became property of MSFC Avionics Department.
Although this coat looks rather ordinary in color, it was still much
brighter than the dark coats worn by most Muscovites.
I was probably the only man wearing khaki pants in Moscow that day,
too.
This is a museum just off Red Square.
When I took a picture
of this museum on my first trip, I didn't
know what it was.
I took this picture mostly because of the shadows on the earlier
picture.
Marshal Zhukov is still on his horse in front.
A Dixieland band playing its heart out on the Old Arbat.
I had to deposit some rubles in the metal can in the foreground to be
allowed to take this picture.
Despite the cold, it was one really hot band.
I have seen many good Russian musicians playing in Moscow's shopping
centers and subway tunnels.
There is a McDonald's with a "walk-up" window in the background.
The Lenin Library again.
A somewhat better shot than
the one I took on my first trip.
I was hoping to get a better picture of the statue of Lenin
(in a somewhat strange pose) out in front, but it was pretty much
hopeless, because the statue is so dark.
I have never been inside this building, although I suspect I haven't
missed much.
My fellow travelers and I in a poorly-lit shot taken by our waiter
inside a restaurant in Okhotnyi Ryad.
From left to right, Kreg Rice of Boeing Houston, me, Ilia Rosenberg of
Boeing Houston, Harry Munch of NASA KSC, and Jim Nolan of Boeing KSC.
I think I had something akin to chicken Kiev.
It was pretty good, although when I went back there in December, they
didn't have it any more.
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