Marvellous Muscovites! (Moscow)

Member Name: moongod

Product:	Moscow
Date:	10/04/01 (14 review reads)
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Advantages: People, Architecture

Disadvantages: Language, Poverty

Muscovites know how to live

Moscow is a rule unto itself. And that rule has it’s own scale unlike any other. Grandiose and austere. Vast and towering. The architecture is stunning and public.

However, it’s the people that make Moscow – the people that populate every paper-thin apartment building, that welcome any band that will come their way and that live life as best as they know how. In the well publicised instability of the economic climate, the Muscovites have no idea what will happen from one day to the next, so they just live for today, drink for today and party for today. Such is their zest for life, with melancholic tinges for tomorrow – well, tomorrow is another day when their lives’ work might amount to nothing.

It’s a totally different mindset and the Russians are adamantly ‘different’ – they make no acceptances that they are anything other than Russian. And indeed, they will welcome anyone who is really interested in Russian culture and life, as long as you don't try to convert them!

Pensioners will talk of the 'golden age' of communism. And certainly, Moscow has lost much of it's gleam, but it is a truly magnificent city because of the people that inhabit it and love the city they live in. It’s beautiful for the exotic snow in the long winters and the Hansel and Gretel-esque ‘dachas’ (summer cottages) where the Muscovites retreat during the heady summers.

I can’t wait till my return.

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