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PLACES—MOSCOW

Timeless Tastes in an Ever-growing City

What is the f rst image that comes to mind when talking about Russian cuisine? A you can have your f ll of traditional dishes. On the other hand, there is the city that
tray of blinis with caviar. A steaming, spiced goulash. A samovar boiling and rum- – now – never sleeps, or better, no longer sleeps. This is a metropolis, f lled with
bling in the corner of a room. This classic iconography made famous by the great energy, that looks to the future and which, after the fall of the Soviet Union, opened
novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky has never waned with the passing of time. Quite its borders to dialog with the more-advanced West once and for all, stealing and
the opposite. The Moscow of today still exudes all the character of Great Mother gifting constant inspiration along the way. The old Russia ruled by the Tsars lives
Russia that you can savor in the old brocade-covered restaurants, in the tea rooms, once more today in the Russia of the oligarchs, divided between f nance, business,
where you can treat yourself to a truly regal break, and in the packed buf ets, where culture and technology, animated by their exclusive passions, such as high tech

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Red Square in Moscow is the capital’s main plaza, which separates
the Kremlin from the historic district of Kitay-gorod. Its area is
about 80,000 square meters.

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