Photo Album Summer Trip 2003

Moscow welcomes us.
Poklonnaia Gora – the place where in 1812 Napoleon waited in vain for the keys of Moscow (symbol of surrender) for the whole day…Nobody brought them to him. We did not wait for the keys- we were “svoi”!

1. Moscow
Vsem izvestno, chto Zemlia nachinaetsia s Kremlia….
As it is well known, the world begins in Kremlin… (Russian children's rhyme)

USC students on the famous "Stone Bridge" with the best view of the Kremlin.

The bell tower of Ivan the Great. The cross was the highest spot in Moscow for many centuries (don’t mix up Ivan the Great with Ivan the Terrible – they were two very different rulers!)

Archangelsky sobor: the only church having two separate entrances. Ivan the Terrible often felt too sinful to enter the church from the front door, so he built a back door to be used during his “repentant” moments (the one with the steep staircase).

Uspensky sobor: the place where all the tsars were crowned (even when they ruled in St. Petersburg).

The biggest cannon in the world. It was never fired as it was too heavy to move it around!

The biggest bell in the world. It was never rung as it was too heavy to be lifted into the bell-tower.

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