GUM Department Store

GUM Department Store Originally uploaded by Wordyeti. Inside what was one the sole crown jewel of Soviet consumer culture … where the well-heeled (and surviving) kuliks could buy themselves a nice efficient radium-powered toaster … weighing in at 2,000...

Kremlin – The Tower of Sighs

Kremlin – The Tower of Sighs Originally uploaded by Wordyeti. This was the place where they kept you just in sight of the river, so that you would be tormented by the free people floating past … The arrow (jezail?) slits in the walls with the little...

Moscow RIver and the Kremlin

Moscow RIver and the Kremlin Originally uploaded by Wordyeti. This is more like what you expect from Moscow in late winter/early spring. Dreary skies, smokestacks spewing pollution, dead fish floating in the river below … Actually it was mostly sunny and it took...

Red Square and St. Basils

Red Square and St. Basils Originally uploaded by Wordyeti. When I get back to the U.S. I’m going to take this and a couple of the overexposed shots of St. Basil’s and do the whole HDR thing on them to get a better image. Meanwhile, somehow this candy-cane...

US Kitsch Culture is Everywhere

US Kitsch Culture is Everywhere Originally uploaded by Wordyeti. I’m not sure if I should be dismayed or proud,somehow. I wonder what the title translates as. Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?