Located on the edge of Red Square, the entire street is full of malls, and the European classical style combined with the huge size makes this mall built by Lenin in 1921 not only the largest mall in Moscow, but also probably the most palace-like mall in the world.

The correct Chinese translation of Moscow Gum Mall should be Moscow State Department Store, which means State Department Store in Russian. In the past, Gum Mall mainly sold food, clothing and other daily necessities, but with the change of trends, the mall has also settled in many international famous brand stores and souvenir shops, attracting tourists to shop here.

Until I walked into the GM mall, I still had some hard time believing that the Kremlin counterpart was just a department store.

The mall has three floors, a three-corridor-style European-style building, equipped with lights and glass windows, so I couldn't help but take out my camera and take a picture first. On the first floor, there are quite a few girls and boys dressed in traditional Russian costumes selling bread and drinks. There is also a fountain in the center of the first floor of the mall, the center of the fountain is a sculpture of three people carved on three sides, and the spring water and the golden chandelier above the head look very beautiful.

Behind the fountain was the staircase leading to the second floor, and along the way I secretly looked at the windows on both sides, and found that there were all big brands, in addition to Dior Chanel, which I had heard of, and many brands that I had never heard of or seen.

When I walked to the second floor, I found a shop with slippers in the window, and my eyes lit up and I walked over to buy a pair of slippers, but when I came, I forgot to stuff the slippers into the box. As a result, when I walked in, the cheapest pair of slippers was about 3,000 yuan for soft girl coins

gasped on the spot and turned around and walked out, and when I went out, I saw Ekaterina holding an ice cream in one hand,

"Vanilla or strawberry, which do you want?"

I thought of the 5,000-yuan slippers just now, and then thought of the countless big brands on the first floor, and I couldn't help but ask, "Is this ice cream Häagen-Dazs?" ”

Catherine was stunned for a moment, then understood what I meant, and laughed: "Gum's everything is expensive, and it costs dozens of rubles to go to the toilet on the first floor, but the food is not expensive." Granny ice cream, fifty rubles a piece. ”

Converted to soft sister coins for less than five yuan

I immediately breathed a sigh of relief and laughed, "Finally let me see a little kindness to the poor in this mall, I want vanilla." ”

Catherine handed me the pink ice cream and winked mischievously, "I want vanilla, now you only have strawberries." ”

The more I walked around the Gum mall while licking ice cream, the more I felt that this place was not only a mall but also a museum and a palace, and every detail was amazing, and there were not only window floors and handrails in the mall, but also potted plants in many corners. The place where the potted plants are placed is very thoughtful, so that the potted plants can be seen everywhere but do not steal the limelight of the mall as a whole.

Ekaterina told me that this is just the usual appearance of Gum, and when it comes to children's day and Christmas, Gum will change its appearance according to the festival, and then it will be a different look.

Walking near a flyover on the second floor, Catherine suddenly stopped me, "You can buy one and that, maybe you'll like it." When my dad was a diplomat in Huaxia, he bought a lot of that for his friends in Huaxia, and my dad said that his friends liked it very much. ”

I used to see that it was a shop selling black lacquer painted plates, and the plates in the window were indeed very delicate and beautiful.

When I walked into the store, I found that the plates had several sizes, the large size was expensive and inconvenient to carry, and the small size was about two hundred, which was acceptable. I bought a black lacquer plate with a picture of a bird, and the small card that came with it had an English description of the black lacquer plate.

The idea is that this black lacquer painted plate is an ancient handicraft that has been used for more than 200 years and is guaranteed to be hand-painted.

After buying the plates, I went to the overpass and found a chair to sit down, there is only a skybridge between the promenade on the second and third floors of the Gum mall, and there are chairs on the overpass for people to rest, and you can see the roof from sitting on the chair.

Standing on the overpass and looking down, I found that there are not many people in the mall, and I guess most of them are foreign tourists who come in to visit this spot as a general guide, and there are very few who really come to shop. It is not difficult to see from the windows on both sides that the consumption level of this Gum mall should exceed the spending power of the vast majority of Russians.

I took out a DSLR and took a few photos, and after lunch was solved at the buffet on the third floor, Ekaterina and I planned to leave the Gummer mall and go to the Kremlin on the other side of Red Square.

When I walked to the first floor, I found that the Chinese tour group I met on Red Square was also in the mall, and several people were already carrying large bags and small bags in their hands, and the logos on the bags were all familiar luxury brands.

A woman who looked to be in her thirties and wore sunglasses saw me, and after saying a few words to the man next to her, she walked up to me and asked with a smile, "Little brother, are you from Huaxia?" ”

I nodded.

The woman took off her sunglasses and looked at me with excitement in her eyes, "Great, you must be an international student." Do you know Russian, can you do me a favor, I have a crush on a bag but I don't know the price, the clerk over there doesn't seem to know English, can you help me communicate? ”

I glanced at Catherine, and before I could speak, Ekaterina smiled and said to the lady in English, "No problem." ”

The lady said thank you in English, turned around excitedly, ran back to her man, took her bag, and took Ekaterina and me in the direction of the store.

I followed behind and looked at Catherine with a smile on her lips, and after hesitation, I couldn't help but ask: "Don't I rely on you to know Chinese?" ”

Catherine looked at me and blinked, "I just said that I don't know Chinese, it doesn't mean I can't understand it." ”

"Damn, didn't you hear all what I just said?"

Catherine looked me in the eye as if smiling, "You mean your words that curse couples to break up?" Don't worry, I can pretend I didn't hear. Because I think the same thing as you. ”

The woman stopped suddenly, pointed to a bag in the window and said with a smile: "That's it, please help me ask the price, thank you, young man." ”

Catherine pushed the door open and went in, and said to the clerk, "Excuse me, I'll ask how much the second bag on the left in the window is." ”

The clerk smiled and replied, "110,000 rubles." ”

When I heard this, I subconsciously turned my head to look at the woman, the woman's face was a little gloomy, and my heart was also a little uncomfortable, and even a little angry.

This woman said that the clerk who couldn't understand English had just communicated with Ekaterina in English!