Just outside the entrance to Red Square.
The statue is of a popular WWII general that Stalin had killed.



Red Square is closed off by barricades, but you get to walk across it
on the way to Lenin's tomb. It was a highlight of my trip to dance across
Red Square, which had always seemed more a symbol than a place.




This is the State Historical Museum, located at one of the short ends of Red Square.



GUM, Moscow's "State Department Store," takes up almost the entire eastern side
of Red Square. It has a steel and glass roof that is very pretty.



Lenin's tomb is a squat little building made of marble.
I thought its design was appropriate to the contents.
Inside is scary, with unsmiling guards at every corner.



You can't take bags, cameras, or anything else into Lenin's tomb,
but here's an image of him from a postcard.
They dip him in wax every 18 months to keep him looking new.



The wall of the Kremlin. My camera died pretty much as soon as I got inside the Kremlin.
I had to borrow somebody else's, so I'll have more extensive pictures later.



Soldiers at the Kremlin arsenal. All those cannons stacked against
the walls were taken from the French after Napoleon beat a retreat.



Around St. Petersburg / Around St. Petersburg (II) / Around Moscow / Church on Spilled Blood / Dostoevsky in St. Petersburg /
The Kremlin and Red Square / Moscow Churches / Night Train to Moscow / On the Neva / Palace Square / Peterhof / Peter and Paul Fortress /