The shades of deep-red marble from Georgia contribute to the solemn beauty of the Krasnye Vorota metro station. The detailed artwork. The metro is also very safe, at all hours the trains are available. Nowadays, vendors in small kiosks are everywhere they will fit. Individual citizens also sell many small items, such as clothing, cigarettes and newspapers along the tunnels.
Many people have the impression that today beggars are everywhere in Moscow.
You do sometimes see very old women in the tunnels with their hands out asking for a few rubles. But these women clearly have nowhere else to turn, and I rarely passed one, if ever, without trying to help in some small way. The Russians, too, appear quite genorous toward their older fellow citizens, and many people paused long enough to help. Often while entering a tunnel you hear beautiful music from a violin, a street player. Echoing through the long tunnels and cavernous stations the music is very haunting.