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By DIANA BIRD
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Yesterday we stood in the sun that reflected from the gold-leafed domes of Red Square, coming to know the busy city of Moscow where we had just arrived. This evening we are settling in to spending two nights on the Convent Pobrovsky grounds in a beautifully built log house. Our visit to Russia focuses on the remnants of medieval developments - splendid church architecture and the decorative features of buildings that survive from the 11th century to the time of Peter the Great.
We drove East of Moscow today for five hours to arrive here visiting Vladimir, another city with ancient remains on the way. The area between Vladimir and Suzcal, affected by glaciers long ago, is marked by undulations of the land which give it character. The soil is black and we are obviously in good farmland growing alfalfa and probably wheat - there are huge straw stacks in many places. It has rained most of today making the unploughed fields emerald and the ploughed land charcoal.
Our hotel accommodations are deluxe reproductions of the houses we have seen in all our countryside excursions. Russia is at least as wooded as the U.S. is and there is a great deal of unsettled land. Settlements are rows of small wooden structures with gabled roofs lined up one next to the other. These houses are really homesteads with fruit trees, shrubs and gardens surrounding them. Many are quaintly decorated with painted wooden carvings reminiscent of Victorian gingerbread - but different. In the cities people live for the most part in large apartment houses from four to 16 stories high, depending upon when they were built. But the village dweller, just as in the U.S., lives in an individual house.
When we passed through one small town that had a number of new apartments behind the rows of farmstead dwellings, I asked our guide about where people prefer to live. r
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