Novodevichy

This is the convent used as, basically a storage place for wealthy families' wayward females. But it is built more like a fortress. Tsars' first wives and ambitious sisters were often placed here to take the veil, whether they terribly wished to or not.






The cemetary is another monument to the odd iconography of communism. It is where they put famous people, simple as that. But the definition of fame is not mine. Mid ranking military and party apparatchiks are unsurprisingly over-represented, but there are more flowers for personalities and characters. See Khruschev, Prokofiev, Checkhov (I have many others)... and possibly the most moving was Raisa Gorbachev.





To leave Moscow, you need to see the Peter the Great statue. I liked.