Russia 2008

Photos by Adam Jones

These photos were taken on a month-long trip to Russia in May-June 2008.

Gallery 30: Moscow

I.

This photo and following: people and street-scenes in Moscow.

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A section of the old city walls.

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In Arbatskaya metro station.

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Workers share a laugh along the Arbat.

VIII.

Another Arbat scene, with pigeons preparing to reenact an old
Alfred Hitchcock movie.

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This photo and following: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a late-
Stalinist gothic construction from 1951.

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It's standard to refer to these Stalinist-gothic buildings in Moscow and elsewhere
as "monstrous." Am I the only one who actually finds them not only monumentally imposing,
but often quite magnificent? Sure, they were built at the behest of a tyrant and a megalomaniac,
but when you think about it, weren't most great buildings?

XI.

Closing things out with photos from the Novodevichy Convent in outer Moscow,
a lovely and tranquil place built in the early 16th century (to celebrate the seizure of Smolensk
from the Lithuanians, as it happens. There go those tyrants and megalomaniacs again.)

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