A city is similar to a language: there will always be another word (i.e. street) you’ve never known. And even when you know the word, or the city, you may not be aware of a new context, angle, forgotten definition. It happens to me all the time I take a stroll down Moscow streets. I recommend, if and when you visit the city, to delve deeper and to take lanes, turn into unknown yards, for you can never know what treasures await there.
In this photo you see a vase in a house’s inner garden in Maly Tryokhsvyatitelsky Lane (left) and the stairs in Morozov Garden in Bolshoi Tryokhsvyatitelsky Lane (right). Both lanes are accessed from Kitai-gorod metro station and in the second half of 19th c. had been a part of the notorious Khitrovka – a criminal den of Moscow.
