Travelog for: Mishook

Mummy, it's for you!

This is Sretenka street. It's situated in the centre of my home city. It's age-old street. There are a lot of beautiful old houses and small side streets. Also there are a few art galleries. I love to walk through these nice small streets. I love this part of the city so much!

I visited my friend bunny. I was his guest and we cooked charlotte. It was very tasty.

Sretensky parkway.

I walked along the Red Square.

Hi there!
I've got a present - hat, scarf and mittens. And, of course, I tried
them on immediately. After I put them on, I've decided to go for a city
walk.

This is Patriarshy pond. It's very interesting place in the centre of Moscow. There are a lot of sculptures there. They cover a few fables of famous Russian writer Ivan Krylov (1769-1844). The characters of the fables are animals.
Ouch! I think I got too close to the wolf! I had a narrow escape!

- Hello!
- Hello, bear-cub!
- Who are you?
- I am elephant.
- Hello, elephant! What are you doing?
- I am sitting and thinking.
- Can I sit with you?
- Certainly.

I walked along the city and saw a very wonderful building, it looked like a piece of China in the centre of Moscow. I learned that It had been built in 1893 for the rich merchant S. Perlov, as an apartment house and a tea hall on the occasion of arrival the Chinese chancellor for Nikolay II crowning and from that time this building decorated Myasnitskaya street. I entered it and saw that everything for tea was being sold there as before.

My friends invited me to the opening of the exhibition in the art gallery. I worry very much as I shall go to the opening of the exhibition for the first time.

I was at the opening of the exhibition. It was exciting! I want to paint something and I'll do it tomorrow.

- Hello, elephant!
- Hello, bear-cub!
- Can I draw your portrait?
- Please do it.

This is Tverskaya street. It's one of the central streets of the city. I took some pictures there. So you can see a lot of interesting architecture of different historical periods. Also I asked to take picture of me against the monument of Yury Dolgoruky, the founder of Moscow.

Today I have visited All-Russian Exhibition Centre. Near the Main Entrance you can find the monument of space rocket called "To Explorers of Space" created in memory of the first Earth satelite. There is The Museum of Cosmonautics on the basement floor, which was opend in memory of 20th anniversary of Gagarin's space flight.
Architectural ensemble of All-Russian Exhibition Centre was opened in 1939 in former Soviet Union. It's like the whole exhibition city that spreads over 200 hectares. The area includes ponds, parks and over 380 constructions of all kinds and styles.

The Main Entrance Arch. Its powerful quadrangular columns were easily supporting the massive arch separating it into the central and side passages. The columns had bas-reliefs whose basic subject was people's labor. The arch was crowned with a sculptural group “Tractor-driver and woman-farmer” raising wheat shaft high in their hands.

Pavilion 1 (Central) was built in 1954, distinguished by severe and clear-cut architectural forms and its white walls. A strong vertical 56 meter-high tower decorated with gold-plated cereal pattern shot up in front of the entrance to the pavilion.

There are a lot of fountains there. The People's Friendship fountain is the largest at All-Russian Exhibition Centre and represents architectural and planning centre of the exhibition ensemble. The surface area framed by an octahedral bowl of red granite is 4,000 square meters. The center of the fountain is occupied by an enormous wheat sheaf in a massive bowl. It is surrounded, in the silver cascade of jets, by sculptured figures of girls in national costumes, a symbolic depiction of former union republics. They were made of bronze and plated with the thinnest gold layer. The fountain is serviced by a complex hydrotechnical device of eight powerful pumps.

A light glance is enough to understand that the poetic composition of the Stone Flower fountain with its divine beauty was evoked by Urals fairy tales by Pavel Bazhov. Bluish, greenish, and golden petals of the flower twinkle in transparent jets.

I was invited by my friend bunny. We decided to cook something special.
And I've got an idea to cook sushi. It was fun.