Beauty and the Bleakness
March 16th 2010 On returning to Moscow from Kiev I tell a friend how beautiful the latter is. "Moscow really can't compare," I say.
"What do you mean? What about the Kremlin and Red Square? St. Basil's Cathedral?" he asks.
"Well yeah, I guess..."
And what about this, that, the other, such and such a monastery, park, cathedral...?
It suddenly dawns on me what a ridiculous claim I have just made
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