A rather European church yard Bell Tower (1788) I had a long walk today in the centre of Moscow, and this time I will be sharing some of the impressions straight away. The first is a visit to the chur...
The church of St Sophia the Holy Wisdom of God was first built around 1480 by the migrants from Novgorod the Great. The choice of the saint commemorated the famous cathedral of St Sophia in Novgorod. ...
You have probably heard about Moscow’s atrocious traffic jams. I have to visit my house 30 mins earlier because I must allow for the fact that it may take me 10-20 mins longer to get from my hou...
I‘m not sure if we, as Muscovites, actually realise how many churches there are in our city centre. Fair enough, there were even more, and we’ve long heard complaints that many of them had...
I strolled up and down several streets in one of my favourite parts of central Moscow; in one of them, Starosadsky Pereulok that also houses the State Historical Library, stands this beautiful Luthera...
Yesterday I had a walk in the centre of my native city; I was walking past the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady in Pechatniki, a beautiful building that had seen several stages in its development,...