Red Square at night

Red Square is lit up like something out of a Christmas special at night. But you can see the Russians are still working the whole tourist thing out. It's quite impressive, but the lighting is provided by giant spotlights attached to lightpoles. The effect is a bit harsh and obtrusive, and makes taking a decent picture difficult.

This is a nice view looking through Red Square from, but you can see from the position of the lights that it's nearly impossible to get a clean shot of St Basil's.



I had to get in really, really close to get this, and even so you can see the glare of a spotlight in the top right corner.



And it gives me no end of amusement the way communism has become a commercial product. Look at the way Lenin's tomb literally bathes in the light of the GUM shopping mall. You can't even read his name!