Moscow Celebrates Its 867th Birthday
Hundreds of thousands of people came out onto the streets of Moscow on Saturday and Sunday as City Day, commemorating the city’s founding in 1147, was celebrated in its usual grand and expansive manner.
Gaily decorated floats rode through Red Square, which had Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, among others looking on, in an extravagant show, which had inflatable onion domes, ballet dancers, fencers and boxers among its attractions.
The rest of the city was packed with events from a piano set up on Nikolskaya Ulitsa to opera singers on a stage outside the Bolshoi Theater to the children’s city in VDNKh exhibition center where stilt-walkers, mime artists and bubble blowers were laid on as well as mini-easels for anyone small who wanted to draw what was going on. A pop-up circus and vintage buses and cars were also on show at the center.
All of Moscow’s boulevards were full of action, mainly aimed at children, with face painting, lessons in different crafts, such as leatherwork. There was even a blacksmith showing his skills. Saturday culminated with a firework display.
Gaily decorated floats rode through Red Square, which had Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, among others looking on, in an extravagant show, which had inflatable onion domes, ballet dancers, fencers and boxers among its attractions.
The rest of the city was packed with events from a piano set up on Nikolskaya Ulitsa to opera singers on a stage outside the Bolshoi Theater to the children’s city in VDNKh exhibition center where stilt-walkers, mime artists and bubble blowers were laid on as well as mini-easels for anyone small who wanted to draw what was going on. A pop-up circus and vintage buses and cars were also on show at the center.
All of Moscow’s boulevards were full of action, mainly aimed at children, with face painting, lessons in different crafts, such as leatherwork. There was even a blacksmith showing his skills. Saturday culminated with a firework display.
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