Cappucino and eclair in the Pushkin Cafe, Moscow. This photo was taken a few years ago. I’m saving hard to be able to go again. If I win the lottery I might have some carrot cake.

G.U.M. is a high class department store in central Moscow - right next to Red Square. The shop houses many top level designer labels. This particular soviet-style window display is tucked away on the top floor.

Moscow City skyscraper. This area of Moscow is mentioned in The Zima Confession.

Moscow City - streetlevel

Zaryadye Park is a landscaped urban park located near Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on the site of the former Rossiya Hotel.

Each section of the park is planted to represent different types of environment in Russia.

Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer who worked as a spy for the Soviet Union, before defecting in 1963. Philby began his work for the Soviet Union as a spy in 1934. He went on to serve the KGB for 54 years. He passed over 900 British documents to the KGB. He served as a double agent.

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Kim Philby is mentioned in The Zima Confession. This is his grave in Kuntsevo Cemetery (Russian: Ку́нцевское кла́дбище, kúntsevkoye kládbishche) in Moscow.

The photo was taken from The roof bar of The Ritz Carlton Hotel - which both President Obama and President Trump have stayed in (at different times). Left to right the view shows - The State Historical Museum, St Basil's Cathedral, Red Square and The Kremlin.

This statue is somewhere in Technopark, Moscow.

A statue of some ladies who like paddling - or perhaps rowing - no I don't mean arguing, I mean pulling the blade of an oar through water - not ... oh never mind.

Komsomolskaya (Russian: Комсомо́льская) is a Moscow Metro station in the Krasnoselsky District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Koltsevaya line, between Prospekt Mira and Kurskaya stations.The station is located under the busiest Moscow transport hub, Komsomolskaya Square, which serves Leningradsky, Yaroslavsky, and Kazansky railway terminals. Because of that, the station is one of the busiest in the whole system. It opened on 30 January 1952 as a part of the second stage of the line.

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Komsomolskaya is mentioned in The Zima Confession

This is Tverskaya Ulitsa just near the Ritz Carlton.The traffic has been stopped to allow someone important to come through unhindered. It's probably Putin himself. A moment later a motorcade came through. I took a video of it with my phone, but strangely the video was blank. Purely a coincidence.

This could well be Putin himself on his way from the Kremlin. If not it's somebody else who requires traffic to be cleared and given a police escort to charge through a completely empty street.

The State History Museum is in the background and beyond that, Red Square.

Bitsevski Park (Russian: Битцевский парк) is one of the largest natural parks (forests) in Moscow, Russia. The park, traversed by the Chertanovka River and the Bitsa River, sprawls for some 10 km from north to south and covers the area of 18 square kilometres. The park is elongated from the north to the south and is bounded by Balaklavsky Avenue from the north.

The Tsoi Wall (Tsoi's Wall, Russian: Стена Цоя) is a graffiti-covered wall in Moscow, dedicated to musician Viktor Tsoi and his band Kino. The wall is located at the house №37, at the intersection of Arbat Street and Krivoarbatsky Lane and is considered one of Moscow's landmarks. It is customary for Tsoi's fans to leave a broken lighted cigarette in the special ash plate by the wall.

Viktor Robertovich Tsoi (Russian: Ви́ктор Ро́бертович Цой; 21 June 1962 – 15 August 1990) was a Soviet and Russian singer and songwriter who co-founded Kino, one of the most popular and musically influential bands in the history of Russian music.

Delovoy Tsentr station. Testovskaya ulitsa 2с2, Moscow, Central Federal District 123290, Russia. This is one of the stations on the Moscow Central Circle MCC (Московское центральное кольцо, МЦК) - line 14. The orbital rail line opened in 2016.

People enjoying a sunny evening in zaryadye park. The white building in the background is the kotelnicheskaya embankment building. This, like The Hotel Ukraina, mentioned in The Zima Confession, is one of Stalin's "seven sisters". It was completed in 1952

The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is on the right. Then one of the towers of the Kremlin walls. Then one of Stalin's Seven Sisters - this particular skyscraper houses The Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

As mentioned in Master and Margarita.

The Master and Margarita (Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin's regime.

Patriarch's Ponds (Russian: Патриаршие пруды, Patriarshiye Prudy) is an affluent residential area in downtown Presnensky District of Moscow, Russia.

Pushkinskaya Square or Pushkin Square (Russian: Пу́шкинская пло́щадь) in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow. It was historically known as Strastnaya Square and renamed for Alexander Pushkin in 1937.

It is located at the junction of the Boulevard Ring (Tverskoy Boulevard to the southwest and Strastnoy Boulevard to the northeast) and Tverskaya Street, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northwest of the Kremlin. Not only is it one of the busiest city squares in Moscow, but also one of the busiest in the world.

The former Strastnaya Square name originates from the Passion Monastery (Russian: Страстной монастырь, Strastnoy Monastery), which was demolished in the 1930s.

At the centre of the square is a famous statue of Pushkin, funded by public subscription and unveiled by Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1880. In 1950, Joseph Stalin had the statue moved to the other side of Tverskaya Street, where the Monastery of Christ's Passions had formerly stood. On 5 December 1965, “the Glasnost Meeting”, the first spontaneous public political demonstration in the Soviet Union after the Second World War, took place here.

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On the day I took this photo, there were some demonstrators and quite a few police keeping an eye on things.

Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (Russian: Выставка достижений народного хозяйства, Vystavka dostizheniy narodnogo khozyaystva, abbreviated as VDNKh or VDNH, Russian: ВДНХ, pronounced [vɛ dɛ ɛn xa]) is a permanent general purpose trade show and amusement park in Moscow, Russia.

It features buildings representing different regions of the Soviet Union.

Triumph Square (Triumfalnaya Ploshchad).

Coming out of Mayakovskaya Metro station you find yourself in a pleasant square with oversized swings for all to play on. The soviet-style statue of Mayakovsky stands in front of the Beijing Hotel. If you are facing towards him, the Tchaikovsky concert hall is on your left, beyond the swings.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement.

храм воскресения христова и новомучеников - church of the resurrection of Christ and the new martyrs is a modern, recently built оrthodox сhurch on the territory of Sretensky monastery. Apparently, it was constructed using concrete and modern techniques.

Practising for Victory Day. If my memory is correct the air display was cancelled that year due to bad weather - presumably because no one would see what was going on.

This is a craft beer bar somewhere off Lyublinskaya ulitsa near Marino metro.

As you can see, the colourful board shows some great choices.

Moscow City from Sparrow Hill. Sparrow Hills (Russian: Воробьёвы го́ры, Vorobyovy Gory), formerly known as Lenin Hills (Ле́нинские го́ры, Leninskiye Gory) between 1935 and 1999, is a hill on the right bank of the Moskva River and one of the highest points in Moscow, reaching a height of 80 m (260 ft) above the river level.

Moscow City is a city of skyscrapers. The skyscrapers are sleek and modern with observation decks, futuristic hotels, panoramic restaurants and shopping centres. This is an environment created for business and entertainment.

Moscow City is mentioned in The Zima Confession.