At those day, In the middle of October, I was walking with Daryl (my client from Australia) around the Red Square and we decided to go inside the St. Basil. While we discovered the chapels inside of St. Basil's Cathedral, it started rain and also something happened on the Red Square - it was almost empty and several police cars blocked the square from different sides. Also it were a lot of regular policemen which asked people to leave this area. The people who were in this cathedral could leave it only from the right side, walking around the building, but not to cross the square. Even I had a picture with this view on the Red Square from St. Basil's Cathedral before, but I decided to make several shots especially when I watched a man crossing this square alone... I found it a bit funny and interesting... I took several shots and like two photos which were taken with interval about half minute. Another view, number 3, I decided to post on TrekLens.
Details in brief:
Left side:
Nicely decorated porch of St. Basil's Cathedral, roof of yellow building - former Senate - currently official residence of our president, Lenin's Tomb, St. Nikolas Tower
Middle:
People walking out of St. Basil's Cathedral, a man with special security pass (maybe he is from FSB (former KGB)? :-)), State Historical Museum
Right side:
The monument to the Kozma Minin and Prince Dmitri Pozharsky, long building of famous department store GUM, Resurrection Gates, behind the gates you can see crane - this is reconstruction of hotel "Moskva" (Moscow), and behind it (if you can distinguish) you can see grey building which houses the Russian Parliament we call "Duma".
Now you can compare the quality of pictures with almost the same views taken with my old (C5060WZ) and new (E-500) Olympus cameras. No doubt that the colors are nicer and real in the last pictures.
With BEST Regards,
Arthur Lookyanov
Private Guide & Personal Driver in Moscow
Tour to the Red Square
Last Edited: June 2nd, 2007