This February was marked with a huge fire in the very center of the city, two hundred meters from infamous former KGB headquarters at Lubyanka. The building of Marine division of the Ministry of Transportation caught fire in the middle of the day, and the firemen when they arrived to the scene had to rescue several hundred people prior to starting fight with the fire itself. Finally, it took more than 24 hours to extinguish all the flames. That water and the night frost made the building look like a cave with huge ice stalactites shown in the photo on the right. It takes a weekend to really enjoy the contrasts of Moscow, to absorb quietly its life.
Busy weekdays are too much full of rush.
On a Saturday morning one can at last lazily walk on the boulevards - or ski there or in the park. Muscovites like skiing and other winter sports. Every short slope becomes a place where the kids enjoy their sledges. Perhaps, there are more skiers in February on park trails than bikers on the same paths in June. Andronnikov Monastery is one of such places.