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The Kremlin is at the heart of Moscow, and serves as a center of religious as well as secular power. My local guide took me there on my one day off for a real Russian experience. |
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The Kremlin Gate
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Red Square
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State department store GUM faces onto the square
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Kremlin tower
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Official building
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The Czar Cannon, built in 1586, weighs 85,000 pounds
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Bell tower
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Cathedral door
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'His holiness patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and all Russia' departs a service
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The eternal flame on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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What's Russian for "cheese"?
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Moscow by day
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