Sunday Morning

On Sunday Morning one of the English Teachers, Smetlana, offered to take us to the city of Kimry  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimry)  This city is famous for their shoemakers, and is also very old - first mention of this shoemaking village was in 1546!

While there we went to a museum, and then a traditional Russian market.

A quilted wall hanging at the museum.  It reminded me a lot of our Hmong Storycloths, but check out all of the onion shaped domes!

Kimry was famous for lots of shoemakers!  

Do you remember learning about valenki with Anna Z and Anna A?  These are often used for walking in the snow, and are made from felted wool.  If you look over on the left you can see that they wear plastic galoshes to keep the wet out. This picture was taken at the market.  

At the meat market.  I'll spare you the more shocking photos.  Have you ever seen a pig's head, or cow's snout?  There are some Russian holiday dishes made from these.  (I think I'm lucky not to be here on the holidays!)

Just so that you don't think all grocery stores are open air markets,  there are meat counters in Dubna just like ours as well!

Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Kimry.

Inside of the Cathedral.  Notice that there are no chairs or pews!  The services here would be with everyone standing up.  

Did you notice that the artwork is much brighter in this cathedral?  It was consecrated in 1911.  Still very old, but young compared to the last one!

I was thankful that our host at monastery taught us that here in the Orthodox church, men must uncover their heads, but women must have them covered.  Luckily my coat has a hood!  Headscarves are very common for women to wear when going to church.