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.
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With Vladimir Ilich
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| Victor Vasnetsov, Portrait of a Son (1892) |
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Issakhar-Ber Rybak, Glazier and Goat (1917)
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| Raisa Kudrevich, Back to the Native Collective Farm (1942) |
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| Raisa Kudrevich, Student (1962) |
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May Dantzig, About the Great Patriotic War (1968)
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Hi Kate,
ReplyDeleteI sent a letter with contact details ant etc. to your Uni e-mail address.
Hi, just talked to Tatiana. She was delighted to meet you. Hope the heat won't prevent you from enjoying Moscow - at least a little bit! xxx
ReplyDeleteDarya,
ReplyDeleteHi from Moscow, which I think of as 'Darya's City'. Tatiana was so kind to us but we are really suffering in the heat (and the smoke in the air is awful) so we transferred to an air-conditioned hotel. She was lovely to talk to and I gave her a copy of The Cambridge Companion to War Writing. She thinks very highly of you.
love
Kate