Blue colors

It was an overcast, blue day in Moscow on this Sunday. Consequently, the blue walls, colors, and contrasts of School No. 59, established 111 years ago in 1903, make an appropriate blip. The school has an interesting history, founded (and funded) by a bequest from a wealthy merchant, blessed by Tsar Nicholas II, designed to teach private students, converted to a public school following the 1917 Revolution, enduring periods of regression and stagnation as bureaucrats interfered, then one of the first to discard the communist symbols like the Young Pioneers, and now back to being one of the leading edge schools in Moscow. It has a stirring school hymn too.

Long live the academy!
Long live the professors!
Hail to every student!
Hail to all the students!
Let them thrive!

Very apt.