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Due to security reasons, Red Square was closed for most of the time I was in Moscow. Shortly after I arrived in Russia, there was a spate of suicide bombings by Chechens.
Date: 02/01/2004
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Red Square is bordered by the Kremlin on one side and the GUM ("goom") State Department Store on one side (it's an upscale shopping mall now. My friend Slava was a security guard there).
Date: 02/01/2004
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The Kremlin on the left, GUM on the right.
Date: 02/01/2004
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Some militiamen
Date: 02/01/2004
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A view of St. Basil's Cathedral, Saviour Tower, and Lenin's Mausoleum.
Date: 02/01/2004
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Some trees...not sure why I took this photo.
Date: 02/01/2004
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Communists rally outside the former Lenin museum on Ploshchad Revolyutsii.
Date: 02/01/2004
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Lobnoe mesto - "the place of executions." It is here that Ivan the Terrible proclaimed a festival of torture on Red Square in 1570. He amused himself by letting wild bears run loose among the crowds, and erecting a human sized frying pan on Re
Date: 02/01/2004
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Resurrection Gate, built in the 1990s. The original was destroyed on orders by Stalin so that tanks could easily enter and exit Red Square during Soviet military parades.
Date: 02/01/2004
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Resurrection Gate
Date: 02/01/2004
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The Historical Museum
Date: 02/01/2004
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Saviour Tower
Date: 02/01/2004
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The line to see Lenin's preserved body
Date: 02/01/2004
Views: 1408
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The domes of St. Basil's Cathedral. It is currently undergoing renovation because it is sinking into the ground and is at risk of breaking apart.
Date: 02/01/2004
Views: 1034
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St. Basil's Cathedral
Date: 02/01/2004
Views: 1093
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The Monument to Revolutionary Thinkers, originally erected to honor 300 years of the Romanov dynasty, but Lenin ordered that the names of Marx, Engels, Bakunin, etc. be inscribed on the monument.
Date: 02/01/2004
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A statue of Marshal Zhukov trampling a Nazi battle-standard, modeled after a famous photo that shows him in this pose at a victory parade on Red Square.
Date: 02/01/2004
Views: 1100
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Marshal Zhukov
Date: 02/01/2004
Views: 1220
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Marshal Zhukov
Date: 02/01/2004
Views: 1404
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