Winter walk
The ideal winter weather, sun, snow and freezing temperatures bearable lures, take a walk. Who no longer go out on weekends or even on a working time can escape from the office, which is a walk in the grounds of the former chocolate factory is highly recommended.
opposite the Savior Cathedral on the Moscow River bank lies the site of the chocolate factory. The factory was indeed outsourced, to make room for outrageously expensive loft apartments with prices per square meter to $ 100,000, but the title and the myth remained. Even the store with the delicious fresh and irresistible confection candy was in the neighborhood, he was only slightly shifted to the rear.
In his place, next to the Patriarch bridge, a classy and very elegant decorated restaurant has opened. But the chandelier is a feast for the eyes.
Well, the old chocolate factory from the 19th Century has become an expensive place.
On the way to the candy shop I lay back with proper picture-book weather, minus 8 degrees, sun, blue sky and snow, I passed a new hotel that was in a solitary brick building at the factory site and poetic " Dawn (Zarya) is called. "The new club," Funky Mama "glaze" and the slightly older Rai (Paradise) draw every night so called golden youth. The offspring of wealthy parents are targeted in Bentley, Maybach, Porsche Cayenne, Ferrari's, enormous jeeps, and other luxury cars, the drivers wait discreetly in the car.
On the Russkaya Ulitsa, "the Russian street, young aspiring designers have opened shops where they sell fancy articles of furniture. In addition to film production companies hire them old factory buildings. Also galleries of modern art gallery and cafes have settled in the production rooms. The gallery of course you can not just expect too poor souls of artists. As children try to rent from oil magnates and in art. A young lady, a child from a wealthy family, breaks with the stereotype of the spoiled and not very busy little girl. She studied art in England, its special route is the Indian art. To structure its exhibitions and performances as independent as possible and is a very foggy art collector. Your working day would have 25 hours to be able to do anything.
At the very end of the promenade, just before the much-maligned monument to Péteri., Then lures the sweet paradise. I thought at least. But my long journey was not rewarded, for I was nearly empty shelves. I wanted to buy the famous Russian confectionery, the Mishka and Aljonas in orders of magnitude. The saleswoman told me it was Now just before the holidays, there would be a lot purchased. Is indeed true, but why will not it be delivered much? Business po russki, unfortunately. If the shop is booming, there's not a commodity. This is Soviet. Too bad that after 20 years still exists the old rut. So I have what you want me to get somewhere else, because it is just not as fresh and delicious as this shop.
stood with me, many buyers wonder before the shelves empty. Before the holidays now, many Moscow companies and the masses of delicious chocolate products. But only if they are in stock.
who have not had enough of a stroll, can go to the other side of the channel, the legendary gray house, also building on the waterfront called over, built in the thirties of last century for the nomenklatura. Since they had Stalin all together under one roof, a stone's throw from the Kremlin. Most of the residents fell victim to Stalin's repressions. Which celebrities have lived in the gray house, can be seen in the many relief panels at home.
are in the courtyard there is an interesting little restaurant, the Spezbuffet No.7. The wives had the nomenklatura, as long as their husbands were in office, a great lifestyle, it was for them cooked, washed and cleaned. Something like this we Spezbuffet it may then in the in-house canteens have looked like. The menu reads like a small treatise on history. Salad "Beat the Bourgeois," crab salad from a recipe by Alexandra Kollontai, beef, what of the proletarians only on holidays enjoy etc. The last page of the menu is a throwback to Soviet prices. Here typical Soviet dishes are offered for kopecks.
Along the canal in the direction of the house of the artist, the viewer is not only to Peter I, but also the garden of the monuments over. Stand here and lie busts and statues of Soviet people who were removed from parks and public spaces. Even the Iron Felix (Dzersinski) once the square in front of KGB headquarters is adorned since. Or was. At first he was really good in a corner of the garden, but when the debate sparked by his re-establishment of the eternal yesterday, was he suddenly stood back upright. Let's hope that he stays there, because his return would not only be a visual symbol.
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