After a 100-year break in 2008 the was finally open for tourists again. It used to the tallest building in Moscow where one can observe Moscow with a bird’s-eye. Personally, I haven’t been inside yet but hopefully will go someday. Don’t forget there’s no elevator so be ready to go upstairs. I have been in the so I can imagine what the Bellfry's stairs may look and feel like. Our ancestors must have had very strong legs.
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Tags: Kremlin, Places in Moscow, Places in Russia, Russia, The Ivan Veliky (the Great) Bell Tower
The Rasputin’s museum was opened in Pokrovskoye (Tyumen region) where Grigoriy Rasputin was born. It is his reconstructed home, that was destroyed in Soviet times because the government was afraid of tourists who could be interested in this . So now, everybody is welcome.
Posted in Places in Russia Tags: Grigori Rasputin, museums, Places in Russia, Russian Culture, Russian history
There is Dead sea in Israel, Tuz lake (Tuz Gölü) in Turkey. And Russia has its own dead sea in Khakasia and it is also called Tuz (Khakasian language must be related to Turkic)
In July I went to Tsaritsyno again, this time with my friend. I found out that in summer there were electrobusses going to the palace from the entrance if you don't feel like walking there, because it is pretty far from the entrance. On the way there you can also listen to the short radio excursion. This time we went to all floors (5 or 4, now I don't remember) of the palace. On the last floor there's a cafe. Don't go there. Their prices are high but their food isn't worth it. I went there and it spoiled all my trip 
There’s a lot written and said about Moscow subway. There are many books and articles about its history and architecture. But the subway is also a paleontological museum. Ammonites, nautiluses, corals, sea lilies lived in seas many millions years ago and now you can see inhabitants of ancient seas on the subway’s walls and columns coated with marble and limestone and you don’t need a loupe to see some of the creatures.
Where To Find
You can find the remains on the walls and floor of the stations coated with a natural stone. Most of these stations are on the “red”, “blue” and “brown” (the loop) branches. New stations were started to be coated with a natural stone too, for example Park Pobedy (Park of the Victory). Most likely, you can find the remains in the red, brown and yellow marble and hardly in the white one.
Here are some photos
Kunstkamera (german - Kunstkammer - "room of art") - the first Russian museum that was open in 1714 in Saint-Petersburg. The first items were bought in other countries according to the order of Peter I.
The exposition started with the collection of "ugly creatures" (genetic ugliness of people and animals) and the collection of anatomic products bought in the Netherlands. At first there also were zoological collections that were turned to a zoological museum in 1832.
Right now the full name of the Kunstkamera is the Museum of anthropology and ethnography named after Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) of Russian Science Academy. Besides the Peter's collections there are also living supplies, clothes, weapon, craft-work of the world nations collected in 250 years in expeditions organized by the Science Academy.
The Kuntskamera's expositions are
Floor 0 - Stores, cafes, cloakroom
Floor 1 - Northern America
Exhibition "World of one item"
Exhibition "Japan"
Exhibition "Africa"
Floor 2 - Mideast
Exhibition "China"
Exhibition "Indo-China"
Exhibition "India. Indonesia"
"First natural and scientific collections"
Floor 3 "M.V.Lomonosov and the Science Academy of XVIII"
Floor 4 "First astronomic observatory of the Science Academy"
Floor 5 "Big Gottorpskiy globe"
And here are some photos of the items
This is the third part of the Underground Moscow post series. The first two articles are
“Underground Moscow. Part 1. Dungeon History”
“Underground Moscow. Part 2. Dungeon Tales”
Here I will tell about the subway-2 objects. There are schemes of the subway-2 in the Internet but since it is a top secret object and no one have been there except for special people, you can hardly believe what it published in the Internet. I will only tell what the diggers tell here.
Posted in Places in Moscow Tags: Moscow, Moscow labyrinth, Moscow underground, Places in Moscow, Places in Russia, Russia, subway, subway mysteries, subway-2...Next time they found bones of an unknown big animal but the culmination was a ghost of a woman that appeared in a small concrete chamber where the tunnel led...
This is the second part of the Underground Moscow post series. The first article “Underground Moscow. Part 1. Dungeon History” tells about the history of the Underground Moscow and some general facts.
Moscow diggers explored 12 levels and 24 sublevels of Underground Moscow, namely Moscow subway, subway-2, drainage systems, bunker systems, nuclear reactors, master mines and many other objects. On the 10th level there are Neolithic caves, then Moscow sea in the karst cavities. The 12th level contains unexplored pilot objects. So Moscow is dug along and across.
The psychology of the depth creates weird legends.
Posted in Places in Moscow Tags: Moscow, Moscow labyrinth, Moscow underground, Places in Moscow, Places in Russia, Russia, subway, subway mysteries, subway-2Subway, drainage and other communication systems are only the visible part of what was constructed under Moscow in the last 70 years. Moscow subway has many top secret sections that were planned to be constructed long before the subway and bunkers were built.
The Moscow underground is one of the most mysterious areas of Russia. The labyrinth under Moscow was started in XV century in the reign of Ivan the Terrible. He dug Russia along and across. Some tunnels led to the neighbor principalities hiding in their bosom mysterious stories and unrevealed facts and maybe treasures of Russian ancestors.
Moscow diggers explore the subterrene under Kremlin and Kitai-gorod, tunnels of the Borovitskiy hill, the Temple of Christ the Saviour, Moscow monasteries and many other Moscow areas.
It is well-known that in the reign of the czar Alexei Mihailovich a craftsman Azancheev attempted to construct tunnels under the Moskva-river. The first tries failed but all of a sudden the czar conferred a nobleless craftsman nobility and after that no chronicles mention about any tunnels under the Moskva-river.
Posted in Places in Moscow Tags: Moscow, Moscow labyrinth, Moscow underground, Places in Moscow, Places in Russia, Russia, subway, subway mysteries, subway-2
Those who were in Kremlin were possibly told that this cannon had been made as a memorial to all Russian weapon and never shot. Indeed, how could shoot with these big heavy cannonballs? In fact it is an operational cannon that was made to shoot with case-shots in XVI century and these balls were put there only in XIX century for the tourists. They are fake, empty inside and their wall thickness is only 9cm (3.5”). By the way the gun-carriage was added in XIX century too.
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