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Millions of people in Russia must live in the cities’ ubiquitous apartment houses, but mercifully, millions also live in bungalows, however modest, where they have their subsistence gardens. Perhaps the gardens keep the people not only alive but hopeful. The thousands of dachas outside cities that we saw squeezed up in development-like areas, often too close to the train, I thought, suggest that even a postage stamp garden is a must for a Russian.
On the way to Lake Baikal, outside Irkutsk, there appeared to be possibly millionaire developments going up--huge, ,/ partially constructed, three story, dark red brick houses, lined up on good-sized lots. Will they have paved streets in front of them? At least some people are expecting much of the future. Let us hope they are right.
The Kremlin in Moscow reminds me of a Shakespearian play. As a teacher of literature, I had the experience of teaching Julius Caesar for a number of years. After a while, I was convinced I had squeezed the play dry. But no, the following year it would have moved and turnedthere was always more, i This June so it was on the Kremlin. On two previous occasions, how had I missed the extent and inviting character of the Lenin garden? How had I not noticed how steeply the ground drops from the high point toward the river? There was even a new, monumental staircase ascending the outside of the White Faceted Palace, an old building that formerly was used as the throne room by the Tsars. It is located between the Cathedral of the Dormition and the Church of the Annunciation.
One of the reasons the impression the Kremlin makes is always new must be owing to the care that landscapers have taken to keep about as much green as possible. One year we were there when lilacs were blooming. The Kremlin was covered w ith them. The large and diverse buildings from many historic eras are, in places, crowded together in an apparent jumble, but looking in almost any direction, through open spaces, you see handt
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