Moscow is doing this new thing called the Circle of Light (Круг Света) where they hold a light show at different parts of the city, and it's going on this weekend. The big show was Friday night, and while I'd planned on going, I got held up by some of my Russian friends (they kept offering me tea and I didn't know how to leave without being rude!). But I went last night, to make up for it! The Friday show was easily the better one (they had live bands and it was a full concert) while mine was just a light show, but I got some good pictures. So here they are!
The Kremlin Clock tower, all lit up.
Red Square was turned all blue! You can see St. Basil's behind this guy.
It was pretty chilly, and this guy made a hat out of newspaper to keep the heat in. It had been a really warm day, so I had warn my lighter coat and my tennis-shoes (instead of my heavy coat and boots and wool socks, etc.). When I'd set out for the day, I hadn't planned on being gone all day, and I paid for it that night. My face was fine (what with my beard and all), but my hands were freezing.
State Historical Museum.
State Historical Museum again, but all polka-dotted.
A Russian couple being a couple. This is by far the most tame PDA that Russians believe in. While they are very reserved in public, if you have them with their spouse / boyfriend / girlfriend, it frequently turns into a flat-out make-out session. I have another photo of such behavior (that I'm not posting). I thought this couple was cute, though.
Prettyyyyyy!But, speaking of the Russians that I was hanging out with, they're a couple of students who go to the university I'm studying at. I met them at lunch, and then they invited me to a club meeting on campus, and it was that meeting that kept me from the light show on Friday.
They've also offered to act as tour guides outside of Moscow, which is awesome. Once I'm back from Petersburg (which is where I'll this week!!!!) I'm going to talk to them about getting a trip out to see some Russian countryside. So that should be fun. Also, they want get a game of soccer in, which will be fun.
Then, some other American students met a Russian who is a stage actor at the Pushkin Theater, and he's been able to get us some free tickets. I wasn't able to see the first show (there were a limited number of tickets and such), but then this past Tuesday there was another show that I was invited to. It was Много шума из ничего, or, as you might know better, Much Ado About Nothing (the Russian title literally translates to Much Noise From Nothing). I haven't seen the English version, nor have I read it, and the Russian language that they use was either more archaic or at least elevate and literary, and so I wasn't able to get much of the dialogue, but I was able to keep up with what the main plot was. From what I could gather, the play is about two couples. One starts off very much in love and is tricked into not loving each other, and the other starts off less enthusiastic, and is tricked into marriage. But both couples get married at the end, and it's happy. I think.
But it was a lot of fun. The theater itself is fairly small, but is REALLY nice. It's right across from the Chekov Theater, which is one of the more famous theater's in moscow (besides the Bolshoi and Malie). I hope to be able to go again.
And then, because I went to the theater after having been at the Tretyakov Gallery earlier, I was up much of the night finishing homework. Again, it's like they want me to study while I'm here or something.
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