Highway E-95 II or Journey to Vyborg

One of my favorite genres - travel stories and sketches in the way. It had to be just a trip to Vyborg, but to go a familiar, straight road and did not want to got a little trip. Moscow - Rzhev - Velikie Luki - Pustoshka - Opochka - Island - Pskov - Meadows - Gatchina - Kronstadt - Vyborg - Moscow


Rzhev
from Moscow, our route lay along the route of M-9 "Baltic" going straight to the border and the first town on our way was the Rzhev. When the road passes through many towns and villages, triggered a particular selection criterion - in a city wrapped, and by a pass. I would never have thought of Rzhev, if not years ago, nine mediocre vobschem heard the poem
"Under the Rzhev" performed quite bewildering narrator ...
.. Well, yes Rzhev city of military glory. But by the grace of the recent decrees of our presidents have now all west of Moscow - the city of military glory .. or so.
And did so, the lion's share of Rzhev attractions connected with the war anyway. And yet, here they write strange codes numbered houses. Apparently they mean something
Perhaps this is the code that is easy to recognize alien robots who seized the city long ago and only simulate everyday life with the help of the clones produced here:
Last surviving resistance fighters are masked and sell icons (to fight the aliens), under the guise of a harmless household appliances
But in general, and the average Rzhev looks like this:
Pretty quiet in his own dear city route "Baltic", which in some places even a freeway does not please the driver nor smooth asphalt, or the presence of many gas stations and stores. I am glad she did just that in the pits that could be very very hard ubitsya it did not. And it's good
Great Luke
Yes, also a city of military glory.
And yet, some kind of nap town about some vague, foggy past - for the full effect is not enough just to change the color "old film" at the entrance.
Imagine a sunset clean, well-groomed town center is not offended by the latest type of building, in which you have long and beautifully explains how to get to the center and that there is to see and the heart of people strolling along the promenade, boating, half-forgotten music ...
.. Comes from the old, creaking every cog, amusement park, where a tiny little box-office sell tickets on the old yellowed paper ..
.. And you skip to the carousel impeccably polite old lady in a hat and dress with polka dots.
Add to this idyllic little humps and the image of the Great Bow is ready!
Actually, I'm lazy - twice drove past the villages of fun - "crappy" and "Boondocks" and so on to them and did not get, but stopped by the unremarkable "Zazhogino"
Pustoshka
It is a city at the intersection of M-9 and M-20 (the latter is part of the E-95). Wiki promises to the traveler "archaeological sites of the Neolithic" and camp site "Alol" nearby. Other attractions a traveler no promises.
And it's true - Wikipedia do not understand that at 35 in the shade - a small town beach with clean sand, is the most desirable tourist attraction
Back in Pustoshka can be engaged in a comparative analysis of Soviet poster art, and Sumerian bas-reliefs. Both are more important characters are portrayed larger
Here you can see a wonderful example of shopping signs
Opochka
How many of them in this area, initially - a fortress.
Today the town of 12,000 inhabitants which is really old buildings ...
.. And old buildings
The island
is not only "area of land (usually naturally occurring), surrounded on all sides by water," but also a town in Pskov Oblast! And he too was once a fortress, and quite serious! Here, for example, in the XVI century, these places were the troops march Polish king Stefan Batory Foundation and, as it was then taken, besieged the city. But nothing they did not work! The fortress held. Further, as
saidour beloved Wikipedia, was strange: "the enemy could not break the resistance ostrovichey-defenders. Only the personal intervention of the king will break the resistance of lo - the city and the castle lay in ruins. "
Presumably, the personal intervention of King looked like this:
Not surprisingly, after the harsh uncle's castle did not survive. Preserved only bridge that was built much later, when the ancient evil Stefan Batory left this earth
Good such suitable bridge. With beautiful studs and wooden bridge
The unenlightened locals do in the iron bridge holes and append the characters of their unbreakable marital unions.
But aerial photograph hanging at the local municipality - it clearly visible and the Island and the island.
And you can see how you can get out if you do not have a computer and my vkontaktikom world, but there is a pencil and aerial photograph))
On the island is now preserved old church and now this ramshackle house
Forts here have decided not to build more (and then suddenly come back and avenge Bathory!) But began to make slogans calling to love their city and to feed his junk at a special reception openings
Forest-missile base south
Well what kind of journey without an abandoned military base?!
But this time everything was pretty crumpled - like the Argonauts between Scylla and Charybdis, we found ourselves between two evils. Hotness over 35, it's bad for the inspection of military bases, but can undress .. Thousands of flies, it's too bad, but you can dress in tighter .. feel dirty trick, huh? Well, yes of course - local enthusiasts have already considered all land and buildings on the brick stove. survived in general only this house:
A quick look inside shows - yes, it is not necessary to disassemble it and do not touch
On the way to the base village we passed, "Meadow." It took us less than a minute from the index entry to the sign of departure. None of the buildings were recorded.
True field someone treats ..
Storks? Pskov City ancient and venerable. It carry tourists. It is the Kremlin. What is much more pleasant, it has a public beach with white quartz sand in the heart of the city - you can swim and look at the very citadel.
Even in Pskov is the most severe of all time kalyasochny ramp *
All the Pskov like here at this church - a solid, solid, uniquely beautiful, slightly ramshackle.
In some places, a beautiful and tidy as a picture
In some places not less beautiful, but much less well-groomed
And somewhere, and just ...
What is remarkable here we see the so-called "dialogue between the government and the people" - the first shall preserve historical buildings, the latter shall make recommendations for its intended use in writing
By the way, he won, free artist - perched in a corner of the frame at this time is going to draw here is the church
Speaking of the church, drew attention to the architectural element of reminding the belfry, Rather unusual for, say, Moscow. In architecture Pskov it occurs quite often
And more ..
And another and another ... In Pskov, found one of the wildest specimens of shop signs - compare Latin and Cyrillic writing and try to somehow compare
And yet, anyone can buy a wedding for only 500 p
Here I was able to gather a rich collection of wall paintings of every imaginable kind ..
of concise orders
to many of colors
Some are clearly social purposes
More generally, without any direction
Very brutal
Who is fucken Betman? and more accurate **
And it is neat and cloned
They wanted to know who Bethmann? And here it is:
And it's very entertaining fixture. It is known that the lattice to collect the snow and mud, which surround the entrances into the various shopping malls, as readily collected by the heels and stilettos. Here's an ingenious solution:
Oh yeah, almost forgot! Coat of Arms of Pskov as it tells us
"Pat the cat! ' * - And yes, about the ramp, I did deceive you - it's just lined ditch. ** - So, I fooled you again - it's a real mark of the clearance times of war. Lugh the great Russian poet Pushkin, tells us: There is a Russian city of Lugo, the St. Petersburg region. Worse than not have been this little town in mind, if it were not for the light of my Novorzheva. Pushkin in this country and made ​​to believe Meadow, of course, it would pass at full speed. But the trouble is that I somehow believe Pushkin was not used .. For that and was rewarded with the acquisition of advanced especially swatch of wall paintings
And the rest .. Well nice city - restored church, carefully clean the streets, read Pushkin probably ..
Gatchina
is already almost Petersburg. In any case, close enough to him, that would be all the way from Gatchina to Saint-Petersburg had nowhere to put up a tent
In Gatchina is a very large park with all sorts of kunstshtyukami and even, it seems, not one. Is there a standard boring palace. But I will not show you: P
Instead, I'll show you the harsh street racers
Kronstadt
"Crowned City," or "city crown" or something like that
has on its coat of arms of the lighthouse (which is logical), and, suddenly, the boiler
Boiler reflects one of the versions of the origin of the name of the island Kotlin - say, Peter I, who landed with the landing on the island found only a cauldron of boiling nyamkoy. Even if we ignore the countless attempts to bring the figure of Peter in the degree of deterrence to such titans as Sauron and Stefan Batory, the legend is a more than questionable in view of the fact that the island was called Kotlin described long before the incident. But the locals went ahead and tied to the same event, the origin of the term "buffet" for a long time Kronstadt was almost closed and very war that could not affect
Here and there the elements of the defense
Around the city there are many forts and other defensive structures.
For example, the twin brother and forerunner of the fort, "Bayard" - fort "The Emperor Alexander I»
Better known as "The Plague". Since 1897 there was a branch of the Institute of Experimental Medicine .. Well, you know - and unknown viruses, hordes of zombies, all as it should .. "There is now a construction project at Fort entertainment complex with a theater stage, a museum, cafe, bar, restaurant, shopping district. The cost of reconstruction of the fort is estimated at approximately $ 43 million " LOL The city has a mysterious door. Above it we see a strange sequence of numbers. Be attentive and deciphering its secrets you will experience the alchemy and numerology
Whether or trite, and said that it is apartment number Kronstadt entrepreneurs long haunted the laurels of their illiterate counterparts from Pskov and finally they have found what they respond
Although generally a savvy guys and humor
Speaking of wit! Throughout the M-20 road signs we met, duplicated on the pavement.
's a good idea - to duplicate the marks on the pavement, right?
Only now, when you paint on the ground is proportional to the traffic sign
Need to dramatically remember the school of fine arts courses and geometry, and to think that the driver, the sign will look like this:
Vyborg
here he comes.
charming, original and a little sad
This city has a lot of time going from us to them and vice versa and so on until at some point not settled here. Looking at the architecture of Vyborg inevitably start thinking about what their corrupting influence is very useful for urban planning, material culture, and other good things
Of course not everything here is so nice and smooth, as it is seen from the castle tower
But there is absolutely magical graffiti
Severe Sea Lords
And the old tower, the best kind of course which opens not with the street, and from the bottom of a deep well of the court-
Still there is a slight sea breeze running through the narrow streets of the city, clean and refreshing ideas and outflow from the head of unnecessary garbage ..
but he hesitates lenses But his influence local people crossed the street ashtrays in cafes with flower pots
What's wrong with what was crossed for the bleeding could not be established barhotok
Well that's it.
Just everything, yes. Then we got into the car and went to Moscow - back to the smoke, the people and the complete absence of sea breeze. Well, according to tradition, a bit of nature at last