After relentless grey, the sun came out today and I scrapped plans to visit a museum. Instead, I decided to meander aimlessly around the city's Garden Ring. After a 20 minute walk from school, I glanced up to see the "Ministry of External Affairs" - the name alone gave me creeps. This snarling, 27 story Soviet skyscraper combines Russian Baroque and Gothic styles. Think Met Life building in New York on Pregnazone.
It turned out to be one of the city's famous seven sisters - skyscrapers built during Stalin's last years, using the technology which built the pre-War American skyscrapers. The building's logo - a three-story hammer and sickle superimposed over the globe - made me think Stalin might have doodled it on the back of cocktail napkin during the Yalta talks. When plotting world domination, you need an expressive logo.
For more on the Seven Sisters and Ministry of External Affairs, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_(Moscow)
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