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David Buckley, Romie
Georgia, and Jill Slocum on
arrival at Moscow's
Sheremetyevo Airport
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Romie, Carol, Dave,
Shoshana (Billik, our tour
co-leader) and Jill
with Moscow
coordinator Tatyana
Perova in front of St.
Basil's church in Red
Square
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Monument to Minin and
Pozharsky who rallied the
Russians to drive out the Polish
invaders, leading to
establishment of the Romanov
dynasty in 1613
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Golden domes
("cupolas") on one of
the five Kremlin
cathedrals
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Like the nearby "Tsar
Bell" that was never
rung, the "Tsar Cannon"
was never shot
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More Kremlin, Red Square, the Metro, the Bolshoi Theater |
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Russia's two-headed
eagle flag was flying
over the Supreme
Soviet, so we knew that
Putin was in residence
during our visit
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A live falcon with
Dave near a gate to
Red Square
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Carol (yours truly) stands on a
circle near the Kremlin,
reputed to be the geographic
center of Moscow
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Magnificent wall fresco in
the Metro from Soviet
times depicts joyful folk
celebrating the dawn of
socialism
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Arline (Kapphahn), Shoshana,
Carol, Romie, and Dave
before a performance of
Wagner conducted by Gergiev
at the Bolshoi. We also
visited the Tretyakov Gallery
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Our day visiting Sergiev Posad, Abramtsevo, and Novo-Sin'kovo near Moscow |
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We toured the magnificent
monastery and seminary
complex at Sergiev Posad
and entered several of its
churches, in one of which a
choir was singing
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Exterior wall-mounted
icon dedicated to St.
Sergius of Radonezh,
founder of the
monastery
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The Teremok was built by
artists at Abramtsevo,
Mamontov's country estate-turned-
artists' colony, in the
late 19th century to resemble
the architecture of ancient
Muscovy
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The late 19th-century
artists revived all
aspects of Russian folk
decorative arts
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The magical "church not
built by human hands" was
designed by Vasnetsov and
contains work by Repin and
others from the "Wanderer"
group of Russian painters
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Our evening near the Educational Methods Center (EMC) at Novo-Sin'kovo included a garden
tour and a chilly evening picnic in a tent |
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One of the EMC's retired
teachers has become a
landscaping plants
entrepreneur, supplying the total market
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Retired ag professor
Viktor Kirsanov and EMC
Deputy Director Viktor
Voronkov offer gardening
lore to Shoshana, Romie
& Mark (Georgia), and Dave
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Foreign Methods Lab Director
Evgeny Shmelev is running
Biointensive experiments in
the strip nearest us in the field
back of his new brick home
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Evgeny has promised us a
report sometime this year
on his experiments
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June 2 was a bit cool for
the picnic we
requested, but with a
tent and shawls, we
were comfortable and
enjoyed getting
acquainted with our
EMC hosts
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