Brief Highlights from Moscow

Before my host's internet time runs out here a are a few brief highlights of our visit to Moscow. Yesterday, while Tanya and her son went to an art gallery, Roma and I went to a Davis Cup match and watched most of a doubles match between France and Russia. Boris Yeltsen was in the crowd looking happy to be a private citizen. All of visited us a married couple who are friends of Roma who paint icons in a studio high up in the hugh Cathedral of Christ the Saviour with a magnificant view of the city. It is a place where tourists do not get to visit!
Today we visited the museum/home of Leo Tolstoy and the Patriarch Ponds made famous by author M. Bulgakov in his book Master and Margarita. This evening we had a wounderful, big meal in a Kavkas restaurant with dear old friends. Photos and details to follow.