Got a good bowl of Борщ (borshch) with bread crumbs and sour cream today:

Awesome!!

Then we went to see some friends who live in a large building from the Stalin-era:

I thought the exterior was pretty creepy…

…and so was the staircase:

All of this seemed to make perfect sense though: Stalin was apparently a nutcase and a major SOB, so that means his architects must have sucked too, right?

But wait!

Here’s the a view of the family’s living room:

…and their kitchen:

…walls that are four meters high? Arched windows? Parquetry?
How cool is that?

It just seemed like nobody wanted to take care of the communal parts of the building:

I put the camera on one of the balconies, hoping that the structure would hold.

And hold it did:

776 shots (balcony, timed remote, manual settings: 5sec. f5.6 ISO100 16mm 7sec-intervall).

Needless to say that I really liked this building.

Soundtrack: Sneaker Pimps – “6 Underground”