Colorful onion domes ...

Posted by Amanda Kendle May 11, 2006

My timing was terrible the first time I was in Moscow in 2003: Red Square had just been closed off to tourists again (with the exception of those braving the queues to view Lenin at rest in his mausoleum), and foreigner access to the Kremlin in the high season had suddenly been restricted to those taking very expensive private tours. To top it off, I planned to get inside the wacky onion domes of St Basil's the day it was closed.

And so my return trip to Moscow in 2005 had several major goals: walk freely over Red Square, get inside the pretty churches of the Kremlin, and most importantly: check if the inside of St Basil's was as impressive as the outside. It was. More info in this month's article on for me, the most fascinating cathedral in the world.