Walkabout Moscow...
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alexpgpNeeding the exercise, I took off for a walk around the area, hoping to eventually stop by a couple of bookstores to see if they had any good materials on topography or surveying.
I started out from the hotel and went down past the Sheraton and then left to the Patriarch's Ponds (Патриаршие пруды), which is the site of the scene at the beginning of Bulgakov's Master and Margarita. It was a pleasant enough park, with a statue of the fable-writer Krylov on one side, and if it was used in shooting the recent film version of Bulgakov's novel, a lot of stuff has been rearranged and painted since.
Coming out of the men's toilet, I was verbally harangued by a cleaning lady who read me the riot act (in Russian, naturally), telling me that the toilet had been painted, cleaned, and so on, etc. and why did I not obey the sign - hanging by one end vertically about a foot to the left of the entrance (so that one would have to crane one's neck to read it) - that announced the toilet was being cleaned?
I looked at her sweetly and in my best "bad accent" Russian said, "Me sorry. Me foreigner. Me no understand. Please repeat. Slower." And smiled, doing my best to imitate a puppy.
She gave me the dirtiest look! (And made my day.)
I wended my way down some side streets and ended up in Pushkin square, from which I walked down to the statue of Yuri Dolgorukiy on Tverskaya Street (stopping at the Moskva bookstore near there), then on down to Kuznetsky Most, to a place that several people had mentioned over several visits, a bookstore called BiblioGlobus. The store, which is across the street from FSB headquarters, is pretty impressive, has a stamp department (I saw a Great Britain one-penny black on a cover, offered with a certificate of authenticity, for 35,000 rubles), but not many dictionaries.
The exchange rate, by the way, has improved since last I was in town, with a "sell" price of about 30.20 and a "buy" price of about 30.80 for US dollars. (So the authenticated one-penny black cover is almost $1200.)
I am currently in an Internet cafe just off of Pushkin square, checking in and sipping a cool Pepsi-light before going back to the hotel via the direct route (up Tverskaya).
Cheers...
I started out from the hotel and went down past the Sheraton and then left to the Patriarch's Ponds (Патриаршие пруды), which is the site of the scene at the beginning of Bulgakov's Master and Margarita. It was a pleasant enough park, with a statue of the fable-writer Krylov on one side, and if it was used in shooting the recent film version of Bulgakov's novel, a lot of stuff has been rearranged and painted since.
Coming out of the men's toilet, I was verbally harangued by a cleaning lady who read me the riot act (in Russian, naturally), telling me that the toilet had been painted, cleaned, and so on, etc. and why did I not obey the sign - hanging by one end vertically about a foot to the left of the entrance (so that one would have to crane one's neck to read it) - that announced the toilet was being cleaned?
I looked at her sweetly and in my best "bad accent" Russian said, "Me sorry. Me foreigner. Me no understand. Please repeat. Slower." And smiled, doing my best to imitate a puppy.
She gave me the dirtiest look! (And made my day.)
I wended my way down some side streets and ended up in Pushkin square, from which I walked down to the statue of Yuri Dolgorukiy on Tverskaya Street (stopping at the Moskva bookstore near there), then on down to Kuznetsky Most, to a place that several people had mentioned over several visits, a bookstore called BiblioGlobus. The store, which is across the street from FSB headquarters, is pretty impressive, has a stamp department (I saw a Great Britain one-penny black on a cover, offered with a certificate of authenticity, for 35,000 rubles), but not many dictionaries.
The exchange rate, by the way, has improved since last I was in town, with a "sell" price of about 30.20 and a "buy" price of about 30.80 for US dollars. (So the authenticated one-penny black cover is almost $1200.)
I am currently in an Internet cafe just off of Pushkin square, checking in and sipping a cool Pepsi-light before going back to the hotel via the direct route (up Tverskaya).
Cheers...
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Date: 2009-06-03 10:18 am (UTC)Since I don't know what your web-access is like, I am posting the list of shops from the Valent website, which allegedly stoke their books:
в МОСКВЕ:
# Книжный киоск издательства «Р. Валент», где вы можете приобрести книги по отпускным ценам издательства,
работает по будням с 11 до 18 час. (ВНИМАНИЕ! В летний период книжный киоск работает по пятницам до 15.00.)
)
Адрес: 105 062, Москва, Подсосенский пер., д. 23, стр. 5.
# Телефоны для справок: (495) 916 67 03, 979 63 91 , 8 901 559 63 91
# «Библио-Глобус» — м. Лубянка, ул. Мясницкая, 6/3, стр.5
# «Москва» — м. Тверская, ул. Тверская, 8, стр. 1
# «Молодая гвардия» — м. Полянка, ул. Б.Полянка, 28,
# «Дом книги на Новом Арбате» — м. Арбатская / Боровицкая, ул. Н.Арбат, 8
# «Дом педагогической книги» – ст.м. Охотный Ряд/Театральная, ул., Б. Дмитровка, 7/5 стр.1 . Тел. (495) 623 68 32, 629 39 30
# «Дом книги на Ладожской» — м. Бауманская, ул. Ладожская, д. 9/8
# Сеть магазинов «Новый книжный»
# в киосках МГЛУ, МГУ, МПГУ (иностранный факультет) и МИД РФ
# Издательство «Совпадение» — м. Таганская или Китай-город, ул. Николоямская, д. 1 (в здании библиотеки Иностранной литературы им. Рудомино, центральный вход, 1 этаж).
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Date: 2009-06-03 10:50 am (UTC)Cheers...
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Date: 2009-06-07 10:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-09 04:19 pm (UTC)Cheers...
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Date: 2009-06-09 11:34 pm (UTC)(And they are sooo cheap to buy...)
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Date: 2009-06-04 09:03 pm (UTC)If you'll be needing to have some nice meal at more or less attractive price visit Taras Bul'ba (Тарас Будьба) restaurant. One is located not far from Pushkinskaya.
Тарас Бульба (м. Чеховская) м. Чеховская, Ул. Петровка 30/7
http://www.vashdosug.ru/restaurant/place/15941/
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Date: 2009-06-09 04:18 pm (UTC)Cheers...