HC/CS Tues Meeting, 29 July 2008

[Ziyi Dai]

http://www.couchsurfing.com/group_read.html?gid=808&post=1312664

Dear fellow HC/CS Moscow members & guests,

After last week's well attended gathering, we're heading to wide open spaces again next week! And just so that it's announced well in advance, I'm actually putting out the notice five days in advance. Instead of going to a real park, we'll be having the meeting at the gorgeous pond at back of the Novodevichy Convent.

As usual, we'll provide options just in case it rains. But I'll have to state here that the options are only for informative purposes so that you're aware of the roofed places in the neighborhood.

The organizer will be Luba Taran, who will also be anchoring the World Cinema Club on Sat, 2 Aug 2008. Having learned past lessons, we'll try to catch as many of you as possible even without having to call cellphones. It just requires a bit more leg work from all of you:

1 You can go to the 7:30pm meeting at the turnstiles of the exit closest to Novodevichy Convent;
2 If you're late, then go directly to the pond itself using the map provided and then walk to the Novodevichy Square where McCloskey's Mama Duck and eight ducklings are. There are benches in that area. Our intrepid and punctual park people should be there waiting;
3 If it rains really hard, then you can try one of the suggested alternative pubs



Big Novodevichy Convent Pond
Metro: Sportivnaya
Address: Novodevichy Proezd 1, Moscow
Place: At the turnstiles near the Metro entrance
Time: 07:30pm, 15 July 2008
Map: maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB...
For latecomers: "Make Way for Ducklings" memorial by Robert McCloskey
Coordinator: Liuba Taran
Cell: +7 (926) 604-1120

Большой Новодевичий пруд
Метро: Спортивная
Адрес: город Москва, Новодевичий проезд, дом 1
Время: 19H30, 29 июля 2008 г.
место встречи: У турникета возле входа в метро
Карта: maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB...
Для опоздавших: Скульптурная композиция "Дорогу утятам!" из сказки Роберта Макклоски
Координатор: Люба Таран
Мобильный: +7 (926) 604-1120

Novodevichy Convent (Russian: Новоде́вичий монасты́рь, Богоро́дице-Смоле́нский монасты́рь), sometimes translated as the New Maidens' Monastery, is probably the best-known cloister of Moscow. Unlike other Moscow cloisters, it has remained virtually intact since the 17th century. In 2004, it was proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

If it's your first time there, then it would be good for you to come earlier and visit the convent itself. There's also a lovely necropolis/cemetery at the back, which can more than hold up against the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris in its elaborateness. The cemetery holds the tombs of 27,000, including Russian authors (Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Bulgakov), musicians (Nikolai Rubinstein, David Oistrakh, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich), playwrights (Anton Chekhov, Ilya Ilf, Konstantin Stanislavsky), poets (Vladimir Mayakovsky, Nazim Hikmet) and directors (Sergei Gerasimov, Sergei Eisenstein), as well as famous actors (Olga Knipper), dancers (Anna Pavlova), political leaders (Nikita Khrushchev, Raisa Gorbachev, Maxim Litvinov), and scientists (Pavel Cherenkov). The latest noteworthy additions were Boris Yeltsin and world renowned cellist Mstislav Rostropovich last year.

We have three alternatives in case it rains:

Pivnoff
Address: 10-letiya Oktyabrya, 11

Бар Пивноff
Адрес: Москва, ул. 10-летия Октября, д. 11

Roadhouse
Address: Dovatora Ul 8
Site: www.roadhouse.ru/home/9

Бар Дом у дороги (Roadhouse)
Адрес: Москва, Доватора ул., 8

Hans and Marta
Address: Bol. Pirogovskaya Ul 37/43, Bldg A

Ресторан Ганс и Марта
Адрес: Б. Пироговская ул., 37/43, стр. А

Since I won't be there during the meeting, we'll see each other on 05 Aug 2008. I am sure the park meeting will be a success - we'll make them famous and irresistible! (Burak, go for Nazim Hikmet at least!);)

Best,

Deric
Moscow Group Moderator
CS Ambassador for the Russian Federation