A must if you're in Moscow. Under renovation last time I visited, this time I had to go. A simple 200 rubles takes you through some fascinating history. Did these people ever have a time of no wars or struggles? Lots of school children there, listening to boring lectures from their teachers. Are they like our school children? We all learn history, but how many of us actually APPRECIATE history?
The State Museum
Amid fossils and bones, what is it I see?
Weapons galore, ships on the sea.
Uniforms of old soldiers, portraits en masse.
Who are these people, these faces from the past?
Utensils of bronze, swords of steel.
Guns and rifles, cannons on wheels.
Peter the Great, Catherine, Napoleon too.
Alexander I, and Alexander II.
Alexander again, this one makes three.
And there is young Nicky, soon he'll be free.
For next came Lenin, Uncle Joe too
Orwell, Animal Farm, they've taken the zoo!
Lifeless and lifelike, these artifacts of old
A view of our history, or so we are told.
But what, what IS it, that I see?
Oh no, OH NO! 'Tis me. 'Tis ME!
November 25, 2009
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