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- From: pruss@helix.nih.gov (dmitry pruss)
- Subject: Re: Going to moscow
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.013332.23524@alw.nih.gov>
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- Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
- References: <1993Jan19.165546.24237@pacdata.uucp> <1993Jan20.033831.28904@ems.psu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:33:32 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.033831.28904@ems.psu.edu> elsworth@hekla.pnge.psu.edu (Derek Elsworth) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.165546.24237@pacdata.uucp> jimh@pacdata.com (Jim Harkins) writes:
- >>1. What should I see and in what order?
- >
- > The touristy: Kremlin, Arbaat, Lenin's tomb, St. Basils etc.
- > The not-so-touristy: Metro stations, puppet theatre, Metro
- > station markets, stores, Russian Orthodox
- > churches, Moscow State Univ....etc...
- ^^^^^^^^
- If someone's gonna waste lots of films for architectural wonders, these
- would go to the first place.
- Like Kolomenskoye (depicted as Siberia ;-) in HBO's <Stalin>; their Volga
- river was, in fact, in Moscow as well, near the church of Trinity at
- Lykovo). Or Patriarch's Yard at Krutitsy. In the very downtown, don't
- forget Trinity at Nikitniki, in 1 block from Rossia Hotel.
-