I'm finally on the world-famous Red Square, but it's nowhere near as big as I thought. I've been to Beijing's **Square, Red Square is much smaller than **Square, it should be only one-fifth to one-quarter of the size of **Square, and it's not as square as **Square, which is irregular rectangle. I think that perhaps when it was first built, the planners did not expect that Red Square would become a world-famous square, otherwise they would have built Red Square a little bigger. The square is paved with ochre-red ashlar blocks, shiny and shiny. I asked Sveta if it was called Red Square because the stones on the ground that paved the square were red. Sveta said there is a reason for this, but in Russian, "red" means "beautiful", and "Red Square" means "beautiful square".

The gravel floor of the square looks a little rough and uneven, and you can feel the vicissitudes of time. I'm a little puzzled, why don't we replace the pavement of the square with large stones or cement concrete to make the square smoother? Such uneven ground always makes people feel that they are not worthy of the surrounding qiē. I asked Sveta, and she told me that the winter in Russia is unusually cold, and the freezing and thawing of cold ice and snow can cause severe damage to the ground, and this small rough stone can not only be non-slip and breathable, but also well dissipate the internal stresses caused by freezing and thawing, thus making the ground in Red Square strong and durable. It seems that the original builders were still very wise. It was not a holiday or a tourist season, and because of the cold weather, there were very few people on Red Square.

Needless to say, I naturally know that behind the red wall on the west side of Red Square is the Kremlin, the highest authority in Russia, which is influencing the world situation at all times, and the towers on the red wall and the ruby pentagram appear on the TV news almost every day. The tower, with its huge clock, is also the most iconic symbol of the Kremlin, and it represents the supremacy of the Kremlin. Directly in front of the Kremlin is the tomb of Lenin, which has been seen on TV, and every time there is an important ceremony in Russia, the Russian leader stands on the tomb of Lenin to watch and command. Sveta told me that the row of palatial beige and elegant three-storey classical European buildings directly opposite the Kremlin is the "gum", the most famous state department store in Russia, where all the world's best goods can be found.

But the most eye-catching thing was the unusually beautiful church building on the south side of Red Square, with its colorful onion heads and towers of different sizes, which I have seen in all the books I have read about Russia, and I know that this beautiful symbol of Russia is called the Basilica of the Ascension. The Cathedral of the Ascension of Vasily is so beautiful, so beautiful that I don't know how to describe it. As we approached the church, I was amazed to find that either side of the Basily Cathedral is a front, there is no front, side and back. I looked around and saw that the church is a clever combination of nine large and small churches, surrounded by eight smaller churches surrounding the larger church in the middle, forming a group of exquisite architectural groups. The nine churches are domed towers, with the central main tower being the highest, surrounded by eight onion-shaped vaults of varying heights, shapes, colors, patterns, and decorations. The church is made of red bricks, decorated with white stone components, and the dome roof is glittering with bright red, yellow and green, and the whole church is colorful and exquisite, imbued with a strong Slavic style.

Sveta, like a skilled guide, told us about the history of the Cathedral of the Ascension, where an Orthodox monk named Vasily spent his life as an ascetic. "Brarenny" means "Immortal Ascending to Heaven" in Russian, so some people call this church "Vasily Ascension Cathedral". It was built by order of Ivan the Great in memory of the victory over the Kazan-Tatar army in 1552. Legend has it that during the war, the Russian army was able to carry out the war thanks to the help of eight saints, and the church was built in honor of these eight saints. The eight domes on the eight towers each represent a saint, while the tallest church crown in the middle symbolizes the supremacy of God. In order to ensure that the same church would not appear again, Ivan the Great brutally blinded all the architects, and Ivan the Great was charged with the "Tsar of Terror". The circular guillotine in front of the church was the place where the tsar's edict was preached and read to the masses, and the execution order and indictment were read on the stage, and the execution was carried out on the stage. In front of the Cathedral of the Ascension of Vasily are statues of national heroes Minin and Pozharsky. At the beginning of the XVII century, they defeated the Polish invading army and liberated Moscow. We bought tickets to enter this beautiful church, the inside of the church is not very wide, it is a little simple and small, but the solemnity is still a little mysterious, I can't help but hold my breath, I am afraid that I have alarmed the soul of the saint. Sveta and Vera lit candles and prayed reverently.

Stepping out of the Cathedral of Vasily's Ascension, it was already ten oon. Under Vera's Jianyì, we decided to have lunch in Gumri. Sveta tells us that Gum, which has been around for more than 100 years, is one of the top 10 most famous malls in the world. I think the fact that Gum is located opposite the Kremlin shows how prominent this department store is. From the outside, Gum looked like a castle palace, and as soon as I entered it, I was immediately shocked that Gum was a palace inside. The roof of the gum is plexiglass with natural light, and the gum is divided into three streets, with a long three-row verandah lined with nearly a thousand shops of various kinds, each with three floors, connected by an arched bridge in the middle. In the center of the first floor of the Gum, there is a beautiful fountain, and Sveta points to the fountain and says that this fountain is the favorite date spot of Muscovites, and as long as you say "see you by the fountain", you will not be mistaken. I smiled and said, "Sveta, I'll come back to Moscow after that, and we'll see you by the fountain." Sveta laughed and said, "Okay, it's a word, when you come to Moscow in the future, I won't pick you up at the airport, I'll wait for you here." ”

There are also a number of restaurants in Gumri, coffee shops and pizzerias where sparrows fly around, sometimes daring to fly to the table to eat pieces of food given to it without snatching the food from their plates. We found a pizzeria, asked for coffee and pizza, and fed the birds while drinking coffee. It's really pleasant to look at these cute and well-behaved elves.

After a simple lunch, we decided to go on a tour of the Kremlin. Lenin's tomb was not opened, so we had to go around, Lenin's tomb is placed in the middle of the Kremlin wall, and the outside is inlaid with precious marble, crimson granite and black-gray labradorite, which looks very solemn and solemn. Half of Lenin's tomb is on the ground, usually underground, with a viewing platform on the tomb and viewing platforms on both sides. Between the back of Lenin's tomb and the red wall of the Kremlin. There are tombstones of Stalin, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Dzerzhinsky and other former Soviet politicians, and Sveta said that Stalin's body was originally in Lenin's tomb, and was later removed from Lenin's tomb and buried behind Lenin's tomb. Walk along the Kremlin wall, where the ashes of Marshal Zhukov, Lenin's wife Krupskaya, Gorky, the first cosmonaut Gagarin and other Soviet celebrities are placed. Looking at these familiar names and remembering the stories of these famous people in history and literature books, I can't help but feel a little reliving history.

As we passed by the Monument to the Unknown Soldier, we saw Russians laying flowers. We stopped quietly in front of the ever-bright lamp for a while, which can be regarded as a kind of tribute to the martyrs who died on the anti-fascist battlefield of World War II.

After a rigorous check, we entered the Kremlin and were able to tour only a small part of the area that was open to the public. When I passed by the office building of the president and the government, I took a look at it from a distance, and I didn't know if the president was working inside. Visiting several churches on the Kremlin's Cathedral Square, the most beautiful and perfect is the Basilica of the Ascension on Red Square. We went to see the 40-ton cannon king in the Kremlin, and four shells were placed in front of it, each weighing two tons, and I thought to myself, I wonder if this cannon king can really shoot such a heavy cannonball? Sveta said that the Cannon King was built to defend the Kremlin during the Tsarist period, and that the Cannon King has not moved for more than 400 years since it was built, nor has it fired a single cannonball, and it is also said that one was fired when it was built for testing, but few people suspect that it is just an ornament. Finally, we saw the bell king, which is said to be able to travel 50 kilometers away, but cracks appear at the first strike, weighing 200 tons.

I read in the book that the Kremlin was originally a private manor house, and gradually evolved into the residence of successive tsars. After the October Revolution, the Soviet Union moved its capital from St. Petersburg to Moscow, and the Kremlin became the office of the new regime.