Day 2 Moscow

We spent the day today visiting the Moscow Kremlin Museums. First we stopped to see the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden. We had to line up at the ticket booths in the Garden to pick up the main entrance tickets for the Kremlin, which we had ordered online, and also lined up for over an hour for tickets to the Armoury, which were sold out online. The Kremlin includes museums such as the Assumption Cathedral, the Annunciation Cathedral, the Archangels Cathedral (where many princes and tsars are buried), and the Armoury Chamber. The Armoury is filled with royal treasures such as the Russian state regalia, silverware, armour, weapons, clothing such as Catherine the Great’s wedding dress and coronation gown, and carriages. We also went up the Ivan the Great Bell Tower which had wonderful views of the Kremlin area as well as further across Moscow. After the Kremlin, we had an ice cream in a café, then went to see the Karl Marx statue in a nearby park. This park was undergoing renovations and was surrounded with scaffolding – luckily we could still see the statue over the top. Close to this was the famous Bolshoi Theatre which is a very grand building. Walked back to Red Square for dinner, briefly walked through part of the new Park Zaryadye, and then caught the train home. See some more photos from today’s journey here: https://adobe.ly/2NClvcf A great day in Russia.