Evening light

White Square in Moscow.  One of the nicer places to do business in the city.

In the background, the church of Saint Nicholas on Tverskaya Zastava.  A relatively young church by Moscow's standards.  Nonetheless, an interesting history:  construction began in 1914, the church was consecrated in 1921, shut down by the Soviets in 1941, turned into a military warehouse, then a sculptor's studio, and handed back to the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church in 1993.  The development was financed privately, by wealthy merchants, and initial design done by the architect Kondratenko, who until then had designed only apartment buildings, later finished by the architect Gurzhienko, who until then had worked mostly on roads and building renovations.

Blipped last winter too, on 4 February 2015.