Promenade around Moscow
August 21–25, 2011
I simply don’t understand people who have a car yet don’t get behind the wheel every week to go visit the wonderful towns surrounding Moscow.
Ples
Map
Local townsfolk languidly sell smoked fish.
Kostroma
Map
There was a hunter hiding in the letter P, it turns out.
Kostroma
A very illustrative ad.
Funnel 123 rubles. Elbow 71 rubles. Pipe 145 rubles
A handicapped monument.
A house with prosthetics. How can people do such a thing—put plastic windows into a model specimen of provincial wooden architecture.
The most ingenious number eight on a building ever.
A miraculously preserved building number with pre-revolutionary orthography.
Building 2
Kineshma
Map
Pre-perestroika artifacts in the pharmacy window.
A once beautiful lamppost.
The stateliest home appliance store in the world.
World of Appliances
Palekh
Map
The street posts have metal maple leaves on them for some reason.
A fence.
Yuzha
Map
A century-old chimney.
An attempt to communicate something to citizens.
There are many of us and only one city
Kholuy
Map
The bridge here got washed away in the spring. Everyone is using a rope bridge while a new one is being built.
The country is keeping pace with the city: wooden windows are being thrown out along with their traditional carved trims, to be replaced with plastic window units instead.
Or else new buildings are erected, in full accordance with all the present-day canons of beauty.
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