A number of excellent sand sculptures depicting historic characters and events have been created in Kolomenskoe Park. Tickets are only 100 rubles, about $3 - they are worth a visit (price quoted does not include airfares)
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| St Basil's in sand |
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| Napoleon. This is a thoughtful sculpture, with his Russian adversaries on the far side and a broken chessboard in between. |
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| Looking far less relaxed than Napoleon are these French soldiers, no doubt wishing they were sipping wine in Provence rather than dragging this cannon through the mud (sorry, sand). |
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| Tolstoy, writer of that epic novel of Napoleon's invasion of Russia 'War & Peace'. Despite its size, the book is quite readable. Give it a go sometime. |
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| View of the sculpture park. They will be removed in September 2012. The face on the left belongs to Maxim Gorky, about whom you can read in an earlier post. |
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| Tchaikovsky |
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| And of course, it wouldn't be complete without good old Peter the Great. |