Here's my stop on the metro - Kuzminki. Nothing too special in this station, I think.
Here's Teatralnaya Stantsiya. A bit prettier than mine, but still not as exciting as the Revolution Square Station - that one has cool iron-wrought statues of soldiers lining the walls.
I traveled for about 45 minutes to get to the Red Square. That's the direct translation from Krasnaya Ploshad, but the red part (krasnaya) is really just an older way to say beautiful (krasivaya). In the photo above, we have Lenin's Tomb. Bonus points if you knew his full name: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
St. Basil's Cathedral was built in 1555 by Ivan the Terrible. The two statues in front were leaders of the armies that repelled Polish forces during the Time of Troubles (1612). Napoleon and Stalin had both wanted to destroy St. Basil's, maybe because of the paint job - that was only added in the 17th century.
The walls and towers to the left are guarding (and blocking the view of) the Senate building and the Kremlin Theatre. The crane and construction that you see is part of a skating rink that's going up. That's a little better than the way the French treated it (they stabled horses inside Basil's Cathedral and on the square).
So if you look at the top of this building, you'll see ГУМ. While that used to stand for Gosudarstvennyi Universalnyi Magazin (Government Department Store), it now stands for Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin (Main Department Store).
Here's the inside of the GUM. 3 floors and two of these halls side by side make it about 1.5 miles long in total.
This red building is the Historical State Museum (it can be seen in two other pictures). It was built in the late 1870s, early 1880s for Alexander II. It has 48 halls and over 4 million items in it today. It even has Napoleon's saber which, incidentally, was also short.
Rolex: "It's time for your victory!" Too bad that Federer is on the billboard, and not Nadal. This is just a block off the Red Square, which is behind me in this shot.
Here's Georgy Zhukov at the back of the museum. He's looking out towards the Rolex sign. Zhukov was a hero of WWII.
The tower in the very background is the Senate Tower, while the one closer to us is the Nikolskaya Tower. The one that's half cut out in the foreground is the Corner Arsenal Tower.
