Travelog for: pyatno

Hello! Here i am! It is my very first appearance in this travelog. Actually i live in Moscow, and pretty often (thanks to my mentor) i visit music shows or exhibitions in Moscow. But sometimes i visit some different places in Moscow region.
On this pic i'm sitting in the hood of my mentor Olya and we are ready to start my first travel.

Hello again! So here we are in Mozhaysk. It is a small town located 110 km to the west from Moscow. Mozhaysk defended the western approaches to Moscow during Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the Great Patriotic War. The great Battle of Borodino took place 12 km from the city. We went to Borodinskoe pole (field), but made a little stop in Mozhaysk to buy some souvenirs. Take a look:


i belted up and here we go


yummy coffee and cherry puff


.. autumn fun tomorrow, autumn fun tonight, autumn fun tomorrow in a country side ..


entering Mozhaysk (cyrillic letters are funny, nudge-nudge)


no, don't think that all tiny towns in the provinces look like this one!


eternal flame - war memorial, dedicated to the Soviet soldiers killed during the WW II


here is the emblem of signal service in Russia


BOOOOM!! (already found me on this pic?)


the monument to Soviet soldiers of WW II


Nikolsky Cathedral - the most beautiful orthodox church, i've ever seen

Than we jumped back in car and went to our main destination - Borodino. All photos will be able tomorrow. Hope you'll like them! Take care!

As i promised yesterday, here are some photos from Borodino.

Quote:

The Battle of Borodino, fought on September 7, 1812, was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the French invasion of Russia, involving more than 250,000 troops and resulting in at least 70,000 casualties. The French Grande Armée under Emperor Napoleon I attacked the Imperial Russian Army of General Mikhail Kutuzov near the village of Borodino, west of the town of Mozhaysk, and eventually captured the main positions on the battlefield, but failed to destroy the Russian army. About a third of Napoleon's soldiers were killed or wounded; Russian losses, while heavier, could be replaced due to Russia's large population, since Napoleon's campaign took place on Russian soil.

There was a true September weather, we walked a lot and took a lot of photos. The territory of this let say culture preserve is very vast and on that day there were not a soul. But all two souvenir stores were open and that was all we need. Also this place is famous with many obelisks that had been erected on different important places of that battle. Enjoy my pics!


















oh, sorry lady! i was wrong when said that there was not a living soul on a whole field! of course, you and your moo-friends pastured there in abundance! peace!

We jumped again in our car and drove hard back to Moscow. We hurried to the club where one cool Byelorussian band had been acting... to be continued

With love,
Pyatno

After a long long day we arrived to the Gogol club. We were a little bit late and the Byelorussian band Gurzuf had been already acting. The club security was very kind and let us enter the club without tickets.
Gurzuf is a band of two musicians: accordionist Egor Zabelov and drummer Artyom Zalessky. They play very unusual instrumental music. We love them very much!
So we took a lemonade which was very tasty and bucked us up (thank to vitamin C and little bubbles)





Yay!!! The concert was good, and when our glasses were empty i put a club's promo bracelet on the head and took some photos, shouting: ''ROOOOCK!!! ENCORE ENCORE!!!'' But my mentor calmed me down and drove me home.
It was very eventful day!

Yours,
Pyatno

Hello guys! Today is a sunny Sunday. Because of the great weather outside it was too boring sitting at home and i entreated my mentors to go for a walk. So here we are in Victory park on Poklonnaya Hill. Catch my photos!


-- hey, flowers, what time is it?




here is the museum to the Soviet victory in the WW II






this is the monument of St George slaying the dragon. also it appears on the Moscow emblem




1. an obelisk with a statue of Nike
2. St. George's Church






i guess it is the best transport facility for my future toy guests, so c'mon guys, i could't wait to have a ride on this bright train!

Actually this place doesn't have a funny history, so exuse my seriousness. But it is also very popular place for the young persons with their hand-held cameras; there are many crazy scateboardists and tons of rollers. Anyway, it is one of the main touristic places in Moscow and it is perfect for walking! Hope you like it!

Yours,
Pyatno

Hello again! Today i was in '16 Tons' club. As you could know '16 Tons' is a song about the life of a coal miner, first recorded in 1946 by American country singer Merle Travis. But the most popular is a 1955 version recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford. All concerts in this club begin with this song. So today there was a concert of our best musical friends - SBP4 band ( the abbreviation for russian "the largest known prime number" ). They are band of three musicians: Kirill Ivanov (vocal, xylophone), Sasha Zaitsev (guitar, keyboard) and Ilya Baramia (bass). Today they played with a guest drummer. I really don't know how to describe their music, so you could check their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sbp4

Before the concert i was sitting in the bar and took some pics




my mentor doestn't allow me to drink alcohol, sorry guys, paper bottles only




guys rock! yes, i know, too dark for photos, but here i am






photo with a star. me and Kirill Ivanov

Well, as usual after the show we had a chat with guys, they invited me and my mentor Olya to Saint Petersburg to have some fun. And then we drove home. Sorry for the bad pictures, i'll improve in the next post!

Keep in touch!
Pyatno

Hello everyone! Have i already told you that i'm a kind of mysterious creation? So, yes, i'am. Today when my mentor kept herself busy i softly sat in her bag. But in the evening when all have been done i whispered in her ear to watch a scary movie. And we went to the cinema. I chose "Devil" by M. Night Shyamalan.


'Kinomir' means 'Cinema world'






we were lucky and bought tickets before sold-out








mysticism is fine but popcorn and cola are the best

Well guys, it is not a scary movie at all. IMHO, this film is rather boring and sometimes illogical. In other hand, it is a sort of philosophical story about Devil among people and in human appearance, bla-bla, and so on. You know, i wanted to see something more than all this dumb sitting in elevator. But anyway, i ate a bucket of popcorn.
Hope the next movie i'll watch with other toy friends!

Thank you!
Pyatno

Hey guys! It was very nice September day, and my mentor Olya decided to look for some book stuff. You know, she's a kind of bookworm, very sweet and pretty bookworm. She was looking for a present for her Finnish penpal, he learnt russian language for some years is university of Kouvola.. And Olya made up her mind to surprise him with a russian book. Errrr... very special present from the bookworm, isn't it? Okay, so we drove to the central bookstore






a bait for postcrossers


well, well, well... where is my fave cooking magazine..?






me and books be Leonid Parfyonov
(very popular russian news anchor, journalist and an author of some  TV shows)


trendy stuff, no comment








the real pleasure for my mentor's eyes





I need to say that after several hours of choosing, re-choosing and re-re-re-choosing we found the perfect book for our foreign friend. We didn't take a photo of it, because it is a secret.
Of course we got hungry.. but i'll tell you about it in the next post.

Yours,
Pyatno

Hey! Sorry for the delay, i promised to tell you about our dinner on Sunday. So after shopping we went to the cafe. Sure, Olya was full up with spiritual food, but i am not so ascetic, and sometimes i'm getting very hungry. So we chose 'Moo-Moo' cafe. It is a popular chain of russian traditional cuisine restaurants. The cheap place with big variety of dishes.




-- sorry lady, do you have a sister in Borodino? i guess, i saw her two weeks ago..




salad randomizer






-- psst! do you have a dose of under-the-counter catnip?




so we had:
for Andrew (Olya's bff): borsch with sour cream; russian salad and orange juice
for Olya: mushroom hash; cabbage salad and cranberry water
for me: baked milk candies

We spent ~10€ for all our dinner and were extremely happy. My mentor decided to show you some more russian bistros, so i hope to have a dinner with my dear toy guests, which will arrive very soon! Bon appétit!

Yours,
Pyatno

My dear friends! I'm very sorry for the delay, but i have some news for you. The first one is the Festival of Finnish Music 'News from Helsinki', which took place in Ikra club. Every year different record labels and its promoters from Finland bring little known bands to Moscow. It isn't such a big compaign like a 'year of France in Russia', it is ussually only two days of Finland in Moscow, but for music addicts it is a really big event. As for my mentor likes music and all this stuf .. err, btw, i need to say that the preceding party was of no small importance of our coming to this gig ... sh! don't tell my mentor about it (it was a sort of secret, you know). Nevermind! Catch my photos!





here is The Capital Beat - they play something like jazz, ska and reggae - very cool and full of energy guys!






here is me and Aatu. you may saw his funny hat on previous pic. he is a saxophonist and a very good dancer. we were chatting and i gave him my pin. hope it will bring him luck or at least will arrive to Finland

here i am on the main stage after the event. yeah, it is too cool to be truth! don't think that i'm that one who has a finger in every pie, but i really enjoy to be in a heart of what is going on

*Real Music is a russian web site where young musicians upload their songs and other music stuff





Actually there were five bands acting on two stages: ~The Capital Beat; ~Lau Nau [acid folk singer-songwriter]; ~French Film [surf pop]; ~Vuk [experimental rock] and Sistol aka Vladislav Delay [electonic experimentations].
We returned home late at night and were ready to drop. Maybe you could think that i'm a 24-hours party-toy, yes, there is some truth in it. But i really think that it is better to show you some not so popular places than make photos only on the Red Square or to have these billions of russian churches as a background of my pictures.
So stay tuned!

Hugs,
Pyatno

There was a beautiful Saturday and me dear mentor took me and her bff Andrew for a walk. In the middle of the day (at the my suggestion) we decided to have a lunch. Today we chose 'Teremok'. It is a pancake house with a wide choice of pancakes with different fillings. Yummy!







for Andrew: borsch and pancake with cheese and ham
for Olya: pancake with cheese only
for all of us: cranberry water



Hope, this was the last time when i had a lunch alone without any toy friend, because i'm already hearing the knock-knock in my door.
somebody arrived..