Two ‘Religions’ of Russia: Orthodox Russian Church and Vladmir Ilyich Lenin

On Sunday, 24th July, we experienced two opposing ‘religions’ dividing the Russian society since the beginning of 20th century: the Orthodox Russian Church with the Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and all Russia as its head and the atheist Communist Party with its father, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. These two were at opposing extremities and politics

Moscow: Step Back into the Renaissance Period

We came to Moscow by night train booking plaztkart tickets – 3rd class open carriage with bunk beds. There was no particular choice of tickets in this class, so we ended up with the worst possible ones, which were upper beds in the aisle. This meant that we were stuck on our upper bunks as