Moscow/Hamburg '09

Moscow Pictures

Red Square (State History Museum in background)

Red Square (St. Basil's in the background)

Dostoyevsky and Moscow Library

Trinity Tower

Changing of the Guards at the Eternal Flame

Saviour Tower

State History Museum

Saviour Tower

State History Museum

St. Basil's Cathedral

Me at Red Square

St. Basil's Cathedral

Lenin's Mausoleum

Me in front of Lenin's Mausoleum

Simpson in front of State History Museum

Celebrating the 1941 March through Red Square straight to the frontlines

Russian vodka with my new Russian friends

Successfully rolled sushi

Rolling sushi

Simpson eating the sushi

The Russians dress me up in Russian army gear

The helmet reads, "Don't worry!  We will break through!"

I'm out in the snow.  Notice the scarf given to me by my new Russian friends.

Simpson in the snow

"Nice" Soviet buildings

Moscow Snow

Moscow Subway Station

State History Museum at night

Night shot of the Corner Arsenal Tower

The GUM at night (department store on Red Square)

St. Basil's Cathedral at night

St. Basil's Cathedral

Red Square at night

Red Square

Red Square

Red Square

Moscow River at night

Moscow building at night

Me in front of some random sculpture

Moscow River

Peter the Great Statue

A revisit to the Oktoberfest Art Pic - "Young Man Kicks Leaves"

Alexander Pushkin

Albert Einstein - Don't know why he's here.

Sculpture Garden - Lenin and Stalin Statues

My statue friend and I cloud watching

Simpson's new friend

Simpson and his buddies imitating Dr. Evil

Monument to those who suffered at the Gulag

Me and Kalinin

Entrance to Gorky Park

Night Shot outside Kremlin

Senate Building

Senate Building

The Patriarch's Palace

Annunciation Cathedral

Archangel Cathedral

Assumption Cathedral

Ivan the Great Bell Tower

Inside the Kremlin

Tsar Cannon - Largest cannon in the world and it was never fired. 

Too bad this jerk wouldn't get out of the picture.  He stood there for 20 minutes.

Tsar bell - Largest bell in the world and yet it was never rung

Rebuilt Cathedral

Moscow Building

Another Building

And again

And a nice Soviet building in the background

Moscow River

Kremlin over the Moscow River

Lovely Soviet living

Buildings along the river

Soviet buildings near the factories...at least it's near the river too

Rostov-Veliky Pictrues

Rostov-Veliky Building

Rostov-Veliky Kremlin

Rostov-Veliky Kremlin

Inside Rostov-Veliky Kremlin

Inside Rostov-Veliky Kremlin

Me at Rostov-Veliky

Rostov-Veliky Kremlin

Archway inside Rostov-Veliky Kremlin

Simpson at Rostov-Veliky

Well inside Rostov-Veliky Kremlin

Inside Rostov-Veliky Kremlin

Rostov-Veliky Church

Yaroslavl Pictures

Yaroslavl the Wise

Lenin statues still prevalent

Inside Yaroslavl Kremlin

Yaroslavl Building

Yaroslavl Church

Yaroslavl Church

Simpson enjoying his old tyme cartoons

Touching the monkey

Yaroslavl Park

Yaroslavl Park

Hamburg Pictures

Hamburg

The Square

Canal

Hamburg Rathaus

A hamburger in Hamburg.  Notice no bun.  It's more like a poor man's steak.

Suiting up...for the race, not for mugging or ninja skills

Lining up for the race

Race stoppage - Notice the #12 car on right is in first.  Guess who's driving #12?

Church Steeple

Statue mimic

Hmm...don't think I want to eat anywhere that has the word "dung" in the name.