I TOOK SOME PHOTOS!

Ok, I'm a lazy blogger. Whatever.

But today I took my camera and took some pictures, so here are those. I might catch you up on the past soon. But I might not. But here's today.

We were trying to find Sculpture Park, but did a really good job of going the wrong direction from the metro station (even though it's a really easy place to find). Anyway, we went to Gorky Park instead, which is literally just across the street from Sculpture Park. Anyway, here's the entrance of Gorky Park.

This is still the entrance of Gorky Park.

Then we realized our mistake, and crossed the street. This isn't actually in Sculpture Park, but it's part of an open area that has lots of statues and things in it that looks a lot like Sculpture Park. But the park costs 20 rubles to get into, and this part was still free. But still, there was some pretty stuff.

This is now actually in Sculpture Park. This is part of the monument to Dzerzhersky, with the graffiti on it evident. To help explain a little about why there's graffiti (although I'm not entirely sure this is related), the park was formed when the USSR fell and many of the statues of Soviet leaders (and other statues of workers and peasants) were taken to where the park is now and left without being put back together. Because of this, the park is often called Fallen Monument Park in English. The statues were later put back together, and then other, more modern, sculptures were added. Anyway, the first photo is of graffiti.

One of the more modern monuments.

While Stalin's grave continues to have flowers put on it, I'm happy that at least the nose of his statue here has been broken off.

This is a close up of the monument that you can see better in the next photo. It's a series of stone heads, and then each head has a name and a year etched into it.

While this Stalin may have his nose, if you look closely you can see they've had to replace this one's nose.
And this is just a picture of a cute kid that was at the park collecting leaves.