Moscow's flirtation with the West.

Latte Macchiato take tea from the samovar, the western influence in Moscow has left many traces. Nor is the Soviet legacy still ubiquitous - for example in the Baker buildings in the Stalin Mausoleum, or in the magnificently equipped Metro.

 

Moscow - The F looks like a stroke with two ears. The H stands for N, P for a rolled R. It must be used in Moscow, because without at least minimal knowledge of Cyrillic is the orientation in the Russian capital difficult. But that's the biggest hurdle.
Moscow - which had also many years after the end of the Iron Curtain and Soviet domination after a third-world sounds, can be used for Western Europeans are astonishingly familiar. It is like a piece of the west in the distance - you can see from bureaucratic and incomprehensible caprioles menus once.

Alone in Moscow? Without a rented bus and German leaders to explore the city? Get lost because umgedeuteter Ps and Hs not in the streets and metro maze? And how do you get to the afternoon coffee and ballet tickets, when the Russian's own vocabulary to "Spasibo" and "poshalsta" - "thank you" and "please" - limited, most of Moscow but hardly speak English? Can you imagine in the city to move freely? Yes, you can do everything - and very good, provided you have a proper guide and a good map.

The cityscape is the first beautiful women. They are large, elegant, and they wear shoes with daring high heels. Typical of Moscow are the wide streets - deadfall is probably the more appropriate expression, as they shared the city into tangible appetizers. For the Edelmeile Twerskaja the houses were in the thirties meters far behind the Soviets wanted to have more space.

These main roads have something good, because they offer guidance strangers. Visitors also learn fast: Planning in the course of further exploring a road to cross, they should immediately find the closest subway choose - because it may come quickly no second chance. The eight, sometimes ten deadfall so easy to cross, is the face of some three million cars, the crazy speed drive, pure suicide.

Moscow is ring-shaped structure, the innermost circle consists of mainly the Kremlin and Red Square. On the second circle, the Boulevard Ring, to get to major attractions such as Christ the Savior Cathedral or the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, the long lost, legendary treasure of Troy shows. Within this ring, there are more than enough for a week to discover.

Souvenir photo on the Red Square

The tour leads sooner or later to the Red Square. Groups of tourists gather here to see flags held high. A bride and groom, chauffeured by a white stretch limousine, kissing in front of the red-green-white-gold and almost oriental-looking Basil's Cathedral for a souvenir photo. Uniformed guard the marble Lenin mausoleum, which - smooth and straight - from the ornate Kremlin walls as a foreign body effect. He is against the gum at the end of the 19th Century-built luxury department store. In the galleries have Western luxury brand like Dior or Cartier prestigious retail outlets.

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