Red square, multicolored hair

So: Red Square has nothing to do with bolshevism, but just refers to the positive colour; the kremlin is a generic term, not to do with Moscow -- although admittedly echoes 'The Palace' rather than 'Downing St' -- and the Romanovs sent people into labour camps and exile in Siberia (which incidentally isn't the east of the country but the middle and which never had serfs, unlike European Russia) ...

These are all things Andrew would had told us if we weren't constantly quizzing hIm on when we could get laundry done, where the nearest ATM was, could we put the toilet paper into these toilets, and in fact where was the toilet paper ...




Fortunately Russia was a series of weddings. Members of our group appear in only a minority of photos of these events.




Vladimir Illyich appeared unwell upon our visit. The current President was not at work when we respectfully paid a whistle-stop visit to his offices. But there were a fine harvest of tourist groups visiting the Kremlin, discovering far more about the country's imperial past than about the past century ...



















And now for Liz's next trip ...


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