The Red Square

The first time I went there it was closed for the parade of May 9th. The second time it started raining half an hour after I got there. Considering that I do not like giving up, I went there a third time.

It is a grand, enticing, somehow open-ended place. When you step in you find The Cathedral right in front of you. On your right sits the Kremlin with its red walls and impressive towers. On your left stretches a stately 18th century building (which now hosts a high-priced/extravagant shopping centre called GUM).

Over the centuries the Red Square has been the place of markets, incoronations and death penalties.

Now it is a busy must-see, a stroll into Russian history.