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Red Square in the Daytime
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Red Square Daytime
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Although the elite Kremlin Guards no longer goose-step about Lenin's tomb as they once did, every hour on the hour (Boris Yeltsin did away with the tradition after the failed October 1993 coup), Red Square remains the primary Moscow tourist attraction for foreign and Russian visitors alike. Even on the coldest days in winter, like the late December day these photos were taken when the temperature was -10 F, tourists walk across the well-worn cobblestones and pose for photographs in front of the colorful 'onion' domes of St. Basil's Cathedral. These days many have their own cameras, but quite a few still pay a small fee to one of the photographers, like Dmitri Molchanov, 39 (seen crouching to frame a little boy in front of St.Basil's cathedral), who stand, rain or shine, at their open-air portrait studios every day.Bill Swersey The long white building along the East side of the square is the GUM department store. The Russian Historical Museum is the dark red castle-like building opposite St. Basil's. Lenin's pyramidal tomb (yes, he's still there), where Soviet leaders from Stalin to Gorbachev stood and watched so many military parades, is just around to the right of the photographer. Behind Lenin's tomb lie the remains of many Kremlin leaders including Stalin, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, and interred at the base of the long Eastern wall of the Kremlin behind the tomb are the ashes of many famous Soviets, including Yuri Gagarin, Maxim Gorky and even the American writer of "Reds" fame, John Reed.
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