{"id":13576,"date":"2020-01-29T07:30:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T15:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=13576"},"modified":"2020-04-02T18:47:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T01:47:15","slug":"easy-pace-russia-red-square-gum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/easy-pace-russia-red-square-gum\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Pace Russia: Walking and chewing GUM in Red Square (Dispatch #13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After our hop-on, hop-off orientation ride along the blue line of Moscow\u2019s squeaky-clean <a href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/easy-pace-russia-moscow-underground-art-museums\/\"><strong>metro system<\/strong><\/a>, with its museumesque stations, I \u2014 a guest photojournalist invited by Insight Vacations (Insight) to experience its <em>Easy Pace Russia<\/em> journey \u2014 re-board the motor coach with my 22 travel mates and continue our Moscow-by-day spin towards Red Square.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13571\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-2.jpg\" alt=\"former headquarters building of the KGB, Lubyanka Square\" width=\"850\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-2.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-2-600x298.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-2-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-2-768x381.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Barely out of first gear, the mood gets serious, but only for a moment, as our Mercedes coach, with business class-legroom seating, passes by Lubyanka Square and the former headquarters building of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoj Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security), better known as the KGB. It was here that erstwhile Soviet spies received their marching orders, then went out in the cold dressed in trench coats (collars up), fedoras (brims turned down) and sunglasses (the darker, the better).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13572\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-3.jpg\" alt=\"local and foreign visitors at Krasnaya Ploshchad or Red Square, Moscow\" width=\"850\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-3.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-3-600x318.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-3-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-3-768x407.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What a difference a day makes, actually 12 hours to be precise. That\u2019s how long, or short, it\u2019s been since we meandered about the nearly deserted cobblestone and admired for the very first time the beauty that is Red Square, the very heart of Moscow, in the waning light at sunset. It\u2019s daytime now, and Krasnaya Ploshchad \u2014 the Beautiful, but not Red, Square \u2014 is packed with Muscovites and tourists alike.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13570\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-1-5.jpg\" alt=\"St. Basil\u2019s Cathedral, Re Square, Moscow, with Vera and Gennady\" width=\"850\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-1-5.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-1-5-600x566.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-1-5-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-1-5-768x725.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13573\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-6.jpg\" alt=\"Spasskaya (Savior) Tower with its Kremlin chimes\" width=\"540\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-6.jpg 540w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-6-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/>Following close behind Vera, our Moscow expert, and Gennady, our GQ-worthy tour director, we arrive at center stage of Red Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990, and bask in the beauty of St. Basil\u2019s Cathedral, commissioned by Tsar Ivan IV, aka Ivan the Terrible, with its colorful, iconic rounded domes.<\/p>\n<p>Over to our left is the 71m-tall Spasskaya (Savior) Tower with its Kremlin chimes that remind us all of the official time in Moscow every quarter hour. And, just behind those red-brick walls is where President Vladimir Putin governs and where we\u2019ll be this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13574\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-7.jpg\" alt=\"Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Red Square, Moscow\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-7.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-7-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-7-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-7-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Further along are the remains of former Soviet leaders buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, including Joseph Stalin, while the embalmed body of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, the \u201cFather of the Revolution,\u201d lies inside a pyramid-shaped mausoleum made of red, gray and black granite that fronts the cemetery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13575\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-8-9.jpg\" alt=\"State Historical Museum, Moscow\" width=\"850\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-8-9.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-8-9-600x166.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-8-9-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-8-9-768x212.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the far north corner of the square sits the State Historical Museum. Underneath its twin spires are 4.3 million pieces of Russian history, including the country\u2019s largest coin collection.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13569\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-10-11.jpg\" alt=\"Gum Shopping Mall, Red Square\" width=\"850\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-10-11.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-10-11-600x349.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-10-11-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-10-11-768x447.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, on the east side of the square where the Upper Trading Rows once occupied the space \u2014 a massive trade center of 1,200 shops commissioned in the early part of the 18th century by Empress Catherine the Great and designed by Giacomo Quarenghi, an Italian neoclassical architect \u2014 stands Moscow\u2019s swankiest enclosed shopping mall: GUM.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13579 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-12.jpg\" alt=\"Gl\u00e1vnyj Univers\u00e1\u013anyj Magazine (GUM) shopping mall facade\" width=\"850\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-12.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-12-600x323.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-12-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-12-768x413.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ornate 240m-long (794 ft) facade, built in the 1890s, is a bright and open shopping gallery with hundreds of upscale stores and white tablecloth restaurants. Enclosed in a steel framed skylight of some 22k pieces of glass \u2014 designed by Vladimir Shukhov, an architectural engineer, to resemble the roofs of the great Victorian railway stations of London and to also support the heavy weight of snow during Moscow\u2019s frigid winters \u2014 GUM, with its three-level arcades, wows the visitor with its spectacular interior.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13580 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-13-15.jpg\" alt=\"interior of the three-level arcade GUM shopping mall\" width=\"850\" height=\"745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-13-15.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-13-15-600x526.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-13-15-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-13-15-768x673.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNationalized following the Russian Revolution of 1917, GUM, which stood for Gl\u00e1vnyj Univers\u00e1\u013anyj Magazine or State Department Store, now National Department Store,\u201d intones Vera, Insight\u2019s local area expert, through our earbuds, \u201coperated as a model retail enterprise for consumers regardless of class, gender, and ethnicity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13581\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-16-18.jpg\" alt=\"more interior views of GUM\" width=\"850\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-16-18.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-16-18-600x506.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-16-18-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-16-18-768x648.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the decades, GUM has morphed into and out of more characters than the late Lon Chaney, Hollywood\u2019s \u201cMan of a Thousand Faces.\u201d First, it was a large block of state-run and tightly controlled shops followed by government office space. Then, in 1932, GUM was used briefly to display the body of Premier Joseph Stalin\u2019s deceased wife, Nadezhda. After World War II, it returned to being a state-run trade center which then gave way to partial privatization. And, in 2005, GUM became wholly privatized and is now under the watchful, bottom-line eyes of Bosco di Ciliegi, a Russian luxury-goods distributor and boutique operator.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13582\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-19.jpg\" alt=\"exterior view of GUM\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-19.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-19-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-19-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-19-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GUM, a \u201cWho\u2019s Who\u201d of international brands elegantly laid out underneath its revolutionary arched glass roof, is one of the most popular shopping venues in Moscow, especially for rich and influential oligarchs packing a by-invitation-only black credit card in their wallets. And, that\u2019s probably why I\u2019m here just window shopping.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13583\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-20.jpg\" alt=\"Shashlik-Mashlyk restaurant, Arbat Street, Moscow\" width=\"850\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-20.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-20-600x364.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-20-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-20-768x465.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An afternoon walking tour inside the walls of the Kremlin will be Insight\u2019s treat, but lunch is on my own ruble as I grab a table inside Shashlik-Mashlyk, a <em>pectopah<\/em> (restaurant) on the ground floor of an elegant, rose-colored, neoclassic apartment building along pedestrian-only Arbat Street, an affluent zip code in the heart of Moscow\u2019s historic center.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13584\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-21-22.jpg\" alt=\"Chilean Chardonnay and menu at Shashlik-Mashlyk\" width=\"850\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-21-22.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-21-22-600x212.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-21-22-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-21-22-768x271.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Serving up some of the city\u2019s most authentic Georgian, Ukrainian and Russian dishes, I study the leather-bound menu, over a glass of chilled Chilean Chardonnay, and decide to keep it light. Well, as light as I can.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13578\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-23-25.jpg\" alt=\"chicken kebabs, stuffed with herbs and spices, khachapuri, and spicy tomato-based dipping sauce at Shashlik-Mashlyk\" width=\"850\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-23-25.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-23-25-600x554.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-23-25-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Red-Square-23-25-768x709.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With only an hour on the clock to consume (read, devour), I order a plate of succulent, marinated chicken kebabs, stuffed with herbs and spices and plated with sliced red onions and pomegranate seeds, along with a <em>khachapuri<\/em>, a piping-hot Ukranian cheese bread shaped like a turnover with a spicy tomato-based dipping sauce. Mmm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13063\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Nevsky-20.jpg\" alt=\"Insight Vacations Easy Pace Russia\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Nevsky-20.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Nevsky-20-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Nevsky-20-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Nevsky-20-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Go here for detailed information on Insight\u2019s six journeys to Russia, as well as more than 100 other premium and luxury-escorted itineraries around Europe<\/a>, or call toll free (888) 680-1241, or contact your travel agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Palladian Travel holds his breath as he passes by the old KGB Headquarters on his way to a daytime stroll around iconic Red Square and a bit of window shopping at the ornate GUM indoor mall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2862,2860,260,2857,2858,2712,2848,174,2861,2859],"class_list":["post-13576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-travel","tag-glavnyj-universalnyj-magazine","tag-gum","tag-insight-vacations","tag-kremlin","tag-lubyanka-square","tag-moscow","tag-red-square","tag-russia","tag-shopping-mall","tag-st-basils-cathedral"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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