Today we toured the All-Russian Exhibition Center, as featured in the recent NYTimes article 36 Hours in Moscow. Farm equipment and Belrusian goods were on display this weekend, but the main attractions, as always, are the old pavilions, statues and fountains.
The Ukraine Pavilion
Vera Mukhina's 1937 monumental Worker and Peasant Woman Statue (24.5 meter or 78 feet high). It originally showed at the World's Fair in Paris, before being moved back to Moscow. The composition was chosen in 1947 to serve as the logo for the film studio Mosfilm. It can be seen in the opening credits many of the Russian films put out by the Mosfilm studio.
Sarah in front of the grain fountain.
