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
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)
There are very many of them and these are the ones I know and follow:
If you hiccup, it means somebody is thinking about you
If anything is lost, say “Devil, play with it and give back”
A spider in the house – to good money
Many flies in the house – to a decedent (before my grandma passed away in January a few years ago, we had many flies in our apartment in late autumn (October, November). We killed 20 flies a day during a week or a two. That was strange)
If you are not recognized, you will be rich
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 
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.
Posted in Places in Moscow Tags: Czar-Cannon, Czar-Pushka, Kremlin, Moscow, Places in Moscow, Places in Russia, Russia
Traditional Russian dolls didn’t have a face. A faceless doll was considered inanimate (unavailable for evil spirits), hence harmless for a child. It was meant to bring well-being, health, happiness, and protect from diseases, woe, and evil spirits. The dolls were made without using needles or scissors. The fabrics were not cut, but torn.
Before the child was born, the doll was put in the cradle to protect the baby, and when the baby was born, the doll distracted evil spirits. Mothers gave home-made dolls to their daughters before the marriage as the blessing. The dolls were given to the sons as they went to serve in the army; and husbands as they were going anywhere. Peasants took care of 100 dolls or more. The more dolls brought more happiness.
Traditional Russian wedding has a few stages. On the wedding day the groom and his friends (usually the witness) come to the place where his bride lives. They are met by the bride’s female friends and female witness and the ceremony of the ransom of the bride begins and it ends at the bride’s apartment door or the room door. During the ceremony while the groom goes upstairs the witness and friends ask him questions, riddles, give tasks (dancing, singing, chanting a poem, etc). For example:
- Each stair the groom steps he may have to call his bride loving names. To make it harder each step may have a letter which the loving name should start from.
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