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ashling

(25,771 posts) Thu Apr 4, 2013, 09:11 AM Apr 2013

St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow - meanwhile, on Lake Bakail

The word “Moscow” was used for the first time 886 years ago today, on April 4, 1147. Yury Dolgoruky called to the prince of the Novgorod-Serversky to “Come to me, brother, to Moscow,” and this was the first recorded use of the word. Nine years later, the Kremlin walls were built to protect the emerging city — whose name hasn’t changed since.

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Meanwhile, on Lake Bakail:

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St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow - meanwhile, on Lake Bakail (Original Post) ashling Apr 2013 OP

These are wonderful pictures, my dear ashling! CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2013 #1

Thanks ashling Apr 2013 #4

Great pics! nt pinboy3niner Apr 2013 #2

If I get stuck in there, I'm suing Duer 157099 Apr 2013 #3

Lovely. The Moscow Metro is beautiful, too... Flaxbee Apr 2013 #5

Unless you're driving on the roads Art_from_Ark Apr 2013 #9

St. Basil's never fails to astonish. I hope to see in IRL someday. Aristus Apr 2013 #6

lignuistically Moscow almost translates to Chicago HereSince1628 Apr 2013 #7

It looks much bigger in photos than in real life. kwassa Apr 2013 #8

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,636 posts)

1. These are wonderful pictures, my dear ashling!

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 11:25 AM

Apr 2013

Thank you.

ashling

(25,771 posts)

4. Thanks

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 01:37 PM

Apr 2013

They are from the Moscow Times

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

2. Great pics! nt

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 11:29 AM

Apr 2013

Duer 157099

(17,742 posts)

3. If I get stuck in there, I'm suing

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 12:28 PM

Apr 2013

Flaxbee

(13,661 posts)

5. Lovely. The Moscow Metro is beautiful, too...

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 01:40 PM

Apr 2013

Moscow is a fun city. St. Petersburg is beautiful, but Moscow is just --- fun.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

9. Unless you're driving on the roads

Reply to Flaxbee (Reply #5)

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 09:56 PM

Apr 2013

In which case, Moscow can be brutal

Aristus

(66,388 posts)

6. St. Basil's never fails to astonish. I hope to see in IRL someday.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 02:52 PM

Apr 2013

Lake Baikal, too.

Thanks for the pics!

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)

7. lignuistically Moscow almost translates to Chicago

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 05:11 PM

Apr 2013

Both are identified as a marshy place in the languages that give rise to the names.

I suspect that some ancient prophecy was also at work concerning the city politics of both locations.

kwassa

(23,340 posts)

8. It looks much bigger in photos than in real life.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 07:14 PM

Apr 2013

As does Lenin's Tomb, and all of Red Square.

I was surprised how small it all was. The most interesting part was the former GUM department store facing Lenin's Tomb, and at the time I was there, had Hugo Boss and Yves St. Laurent stores facing the tomb. The message was clear, Lenin had lost, the tomb was ignored.

here is the outside and the inside.

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