
Summer is here and fountains are everywhere. These
are on the branch of the river that flows past one of my teaching places,
opposite the statue of
Repin in Bolotnaya Square, on the
Vodo-otvodny Canal, not far from the Kremlin. The bridge in the picture is
known as the
Luzhkov Bridge, after the Mayor of Moscow, since 1992, who enables everything and who calls forth bridges where hitherto bridges ran there none. The tented structure to the left is a summer restaurant, which is erected in spring and will be dismantled in the autumn.