Hurrah! Today the smog / smoke cleared and Moscow was just a boilingly hot city (100cF). Nick gave a talk at the Institute of Numerical Mathematics (part of the Russian Academy of Sciences), and I went sight-seeing solo. Took the metro to Sportivnaya and visited the Novodevichie Convent, a fairy-tale ensemble of onion-domed buildings: the Cathedral of Our Lady of Smolensk, the Church & Refectory of St. Ambrose (with icon exhibition), the Church of the Assumption and a little mausoleum. Famous Russians from Gogol to Raisa Gorbachev are buried in the cemetery, but that was closed.
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| Cathedral of Our Lady of Smolensk |
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| Annunciation Icon |
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| Trinity Icon |
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