Autumn Walks: Arbat in October

Here is another of our photo-walks through the Arbat neighborhoods in the month of October 2021 in Moscow.

First, one has to have a bite to eat.

 

A late breakfast - early lunch - two salads - a salad called dressed herring or even literally "herring under a fur coat" and a "Japanese" salad with imitation crab plus a cup of coffee.

The place is Grechka Lab deli-cafe. The dressed herring was actually very good while the Japanese salad just reasonably good.

Yours truly aka "pieces of a person" and two salads and a cup of chai kofe.

The old sign was uncovered and restored on this building.

The sign of Bakery No. 20.

Below is a building in Gothic style mentioned in Bulgakov's Master and Margarita.

Some new statues nearby.

The two liberators.

Encounter at the Elbe.

House No. 27 where Herzen lived and now houses the Literary Museum.

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Property No. 34 in Sivtsev Vrazhek - Leo Tolstoy himself lived in it, and the property is mentioned in War and Peace.

Pub Ulysses.

Architect K. Melnikov house which he built himself for himself and his family.

However, fences and other structures impede the view.

This is a fully wooden building clad with gypsum to imitate stone as per ancient tradition in Moscow as it was built in 1823 and will soon mark 200 years.

Italian embassy is housed in a very beautiful building.

Property No. 10 in Chisty Pereulok - pseudo-Gothic style ca. 1908.

Prechistenka.

Wooden building, property No. 9, where write Bulgakov also used to live for a time.

Former palace of Prince Dolgorukov and now an Arts Gallery.

This plaque marks another ancient (at least 100 year old) shop sign found and restored.

A monument to sculptor Mukhina.

A different kind of statue.

That's all for now, folks, but the adventures are to be continued naturally.

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Charles Bronson 100

Today November 3, 2021 the actor Charles Bronson would have turned 100.

Over the years I have watched quite a few movies with him and have always enjoyed them for what they are, including his later-years commercial crime cinema, Cannon Golan-Globus productions.

Here are some Bronson titles from my collections, starting with VHS which I still watch occasionally.

Death Wish 3 was the last Death Wish Michael Winner movie who directed the first three installments Death Wish to Death Wish 3.

Some people, they have been knocking Michael Winner films and himself too apparently (posthumously) but I rather like some of his earlier stuff like The Mechanic (1972) and Death Wish flicks.... for what they are.

I have many more but the rest are on DVDs.

Here are some Cannon Group J. Lee Thompson movies starring Bronson.

Kinjite is controversial and hilarious in turns, may have become a minor cult classic.

Murphy's Law a solid alcoholic cop flick (as opposed to flic).

10 2 Midnight is the weakest of the three.

And the original Death Wish in a Russian edition.

I think I have more Bronson movies somewhere.

However, one of my absolute Bronson favorites is where he teams with Alain Delon in Farewell, Friend.