Russia » Introduction of Moscow

Moscow, being the capital of one-sixth of the world with about 10 million inhabitants is supposed to be something imposing and it is. One of the first imitations Moscow gives is the one of a chaotic city with large busy avenues, stuck traffic, speedy life, glistering ads. At the same time you see tranquil grey residential areas, hidden little churches with golden domes and church music in the Centrum, monumental Stalin's buildings. 

Unlikely contrasts are everywhere: fancy shops on Tverskaya street neighbour nearly falling apart concrete buildings of run-down Soviet hotels and government buildings; hip crowds wearing the latest design clothes sipping cocktails in a state-of-the-art cafes and rugged tired people with solemn and unhappy faces carrying the burden of existence in this new 'democratic' world, where everybody depends on oneself.