Odd Buildings from Last Weekend

привет, my friend!

Every time I walk around Moscow I get more interested in the architecture of the buildings. Here are some that were along the Boulevard Ring, where I went last week:.

Random building next to Chistye Prudy:

Apartment complex in Art Nouveau style:

Church at the Upper St Peter Monastery:

Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, one of the few with tent roofs. When it was built in the 1600's, the Patriarch considered it too secular and too Russian, so he banned this kind of architecture:

SS Boris & Gleb Chapel, quite out of place standing in front of the humongous Ministry of Defense:

пока!