More Minsk

Delightful day with lunch in a shady restaurant 'garden', complete with fountain (though the food did take an hour to come) and afternoon spent in the National Art Gallery.  Fascinating Soviet art from the 1970s, all featuring beaming workers.  Tickled to find that Marx Street and Lenin Street intersect.

With Vladimir Ilich

Victor Vasnetsov, Portrait of a Son (1892)

Issakhar-Ber Rybak, Glazier and Goat (1917)

Raisa Kudrevich, Back to the Native Collective Farm (1942)

Raisa Kudrevich, Student (1962)

May Dantzig, About the Great Patriotic War (1968)

Day 7 - Delights of Minsk

The chief delight yesterday was going bowling for the first time in my life at the Zhuravinka (Журавинка) complex.  The bowls began to take on characteristics, so we gave them names - 'The Potato', 'The Scalpel'. Nice drink on the terrace overlooking the river Svislac.  Finished off the evening - bizarrely - at McDonald's.  So in our first former Soviet republic: bowling, diet coke and McDonald's.