The Mayakovsky Museum was one of the coolest art museums, hands-down. Mayakovsky was a revolutionary, poet and poster artist in the first part of the 1900s. The museum takes you through his mind, an evidently very troubled one. There were some incredible exhibits here, slanted chairs, spilled over bottles, broken things, total mayhem. In the middle of it, a replica of his room in perfect organized shape. This museum was fantastic!
Getting to the Novodevichiy convent tested our metro and out-of-town navigational skills - but nothing that an espresso and blini can't cure. We stopped first at the Cemetery - a photo of Nikita Khrushchev's tombstone above. The convent grounds were beautiful on this coooold fall day.
Sara told us about this huge souvenir market, so we had to go shopping. This lady was showing us a nesting doll Charles was considering...
And then...finally some relaxation where we could get a cup of 'hot chocolate'. In retrospect, we should have ordered the 'hot cocoa'. Nothing like a mug of melted chocholate!
You might be interested in a film which I produced and directed about Mayakovsky. Shot entirely on location in Moscow(including inside the Museum) and using archive footage and recordings of Mayakovskys poetry, the film explores his turbulent life and work. The film is part of a 6 part series about the Russian avant-garde. See www.copernicusfilms.narod.ru for more information
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