Moscow parks I’m very lucky person because I have an opportunity to spend at least 2 hours a day in the real forest after crazy working day. Usually I take my dog and go to the natural park nearby. If you decide to visit Moscow, visit also parks. There are a lot of them here. Kolomenskoe, Tsaritsyno, Izmailovo etc. They are really amazing. Even our natural park Bitza has own secrets. By the way if you’re going to come here your trip should be planned very well, of cause if you don’t want to see only the Kremlin and the Arbat street. The great difference between St Petersburg and Moscow is that the first one is very concentrated and you can see only its center to understand it. Moscow is different. In my opinion it’s more Russian city because it absorbs everything and you can see all epochs here since Old Russian history to new times. But if you don’t know about old Krutitsy Patriarchal Metochion for example that is surrounded by modern highways you will never find it. Or our parks located in dormitory areas. Few tourists know about them However they contains real architectural and historical sights. But for people like me that spend 3 hours in Moscow traffic jams or in metro in rush hours our parks are a small opportunity to switch off a crazy city-style life and be a little bit with ourselves. In particular now when the forest is still transparent and give you a mood “wait a little bit yet, the real spring’s coming”. When there are no leaves on trees but the yellow coltsfoot flowers and white snowdrops have just opened. When the singing birds have just returned and small one-year-old pines have just grown up. When I see them so small near to their 300- years-old parents I think how we human with all our thoughts and ideas should be so small, so inconsiderable for them, maybe like insects for us. My dream is to go to Sequoia park to see the trees born in the time of our civilization spring. I think it should be unforgettable feeling to stay under them.