User reviews of Red Square (Krasnaia Ploshchad')
Pretty good but not the best.
This for most people would be awsome but for me I am more of a active site seeing person like were you actualy get to do somthing.
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(Report Problem)History at its best
My goal is to go to the Kremlin, Red Square, see some cathedrals, and check out some other stuff. On my way to the subway I notice some guy following me. He follows me all the way to the subway and he hangs out while I try to buy a subway ticket from the ticket machine. I turn around and introduce myself. He tells me his name is Ronald and he's from Amsterdam. He's in Moscow for the next three days. I tell him that I'm heading to Red Square and if he would like to come with me. He says he would love to. I'm glad he speaks fluent English. On the subway I ask him what he's doing here in Russia. Ronald tells me that he's on holiday for three months and he's only going to be in Moscow for three days till he can catch the trans-Siberian express to Mongolia and Beijing. He asks if I wouldn't mind if he hung out with me for the day, I said sure why not. Ronald and I miss our subway stop for the Kremlin, so we have to double back and catch the next subway going to the Kremlin. When we get to the correct stop, we go upstairs and start checking out the sites. We take pictures in front of Lenin's tomb, Red Square, the Kremlin, all the different cathedrals in the area, and some other monuments. The Kremlin is closed to visitors today, as well as a lot of the other public sites like Lenin's tomb. President Putin declared two days of mourning for the victims of the school tragedy. Flags were at half staff, and most government offices were closed. Again, in Red Square and around the Kremlin, there is a heavy military presence around the buildings. They are also military people stationed at the subway stations. On Sunday, a female terrorist was acting a bit erratically as she was heading down into the subway station. She had several bombs strapped to her, and some of the military people stationed by the subway must have caught her acting weird, so they chased after her. She blew herself up on the crowded street next to the subway entrance. She took out 10 people with her when she blew up. Sometimes you have to ask yourself, is all this bloodshed and death worth the struggle or even your life? Can't Putin negotiate with the rebels and put an end to this war? Ronald and I walk the length of the Kremlin. It's one hell of a walk I tell you. The damn thing takes up almost six city blocks. One woman tried to scam us with an inside tour of the Kremlin. She told us that if we got a group of 5 other people she would charge us 800 rubles for a personalized tour, but if wanted to only go together she could charge us 1200 rubles each for the tour. The tour, if it was open, costs 350 rubles with no guide. Ronald and I say no and move on. I find the bohemian section of Moscow and I stop off at Vonya's restaurant to give him the stuff that I brought for he and Sasha. He isn't at work yet, so I leave it with one of his waiters to give to him.
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(Report Problem)I am thinking about moving to Moscow from Paris
This place is just fantastic.I think that place like this you can find in most powerful countries in the world,like formal United Soviet Socialist Republics and now Russia.
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(Report Problem)it was the bomb!
i loved the place because it contained so much sceanery and i am all about scenery!
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