Convents, Graveyards and the Metro

These pictures are a few days old and from our last Moscow trip. While with our friends from the states, we headed to a little convent. It was a nice place to walk around in. There wasn't anything in English and we didn't really know the history of the place, but other than that, we enjoyed the tulips and the sun!

 Peter the Great (famous Russian Czar) exiled his sister here because she was friends with anti-czar protesters. Rather than kill her like all the friends, he sent her here to live out the rest of her days. Being the czar must be difficult.

Russian graveyards are definitely a unique experience. This cemetery in particular was a little different than the normal Russian one. It was much nicer and more spacious. A lot of the headstones are large with statues and figures of people or objects (tanks, animals). And had a lot of famous people are buried here. Those are the reasons we decided to check it out.

The bottom "headstone", if you can even call it that, is for Boris Yeltsin. The first president of Russia. He served Russia from 1991-1999. One time there was a takeover attempt on the white house and Yeltsin shot at his own white house with tanks. He was kinda hardcore. 

Here is another famous man within Soviet Union. His name is Yuri Nikulin. He was a famous actor and is basically the equivalent to America's Robert Redford. If you see a famous soviet comedy, chances are he is in it. 

Just a guess... but I think he could have possibly been a military guy... just a guess though. 

Don't quote me on this but I think  that Moscow may have the most decorative metro stops in the world. It is like you step back in time to when coat tails and big poofy dresses were all the rage. 

There is no 9 and 3/4 in Moscow that leads to Hogwarts (trust us, Wendy looked), however one can still appreciate the detail and beauty of this non-magical metro stop.

Come on, you just don't see things like this in our current time. At the top is says МИР (mir) which means peace in Russian. These soviet pictures are just really fun to look at.

 And this is a stained glass project of someone who just decided to go nuts!!! There is symmetry, yet the picture doesn't really tell us anything. Call it old modern art. Yeah I like that, "old" modern art.