Christopher and I started the day by visiting the Novidivichy Cemetary to see, among others, Anton Chekhov and Sergei Prokofiev. They seem to be doing well. It was fun to really need to use the cyrillic alphabet there. And then the long awaited Bolshoy. Christopher and I had ordered tickets rather in advance so we'd been looking forward to it for a while. Well, the show was amazing, and the theatre itself quite breathtaking, but something there didn't vibe well with us. Not saying Moscovians are racist, but something at the show certainly was. We tried to understand, maybe they are just arguing that what happened in the show was historical, and as an art form is permissible. Anyway, one troop of dancers were in black face and did a very silly, uncoordinated, and mocking dance as african servants. It certainly would not have been able to happen in the states, but as we thought about it we didn't see any black people in Russia. Is that odd? Chris asked me what would I think would happen if Obama were to visit Moscow and have this show performed. Maybe nuclear war.
So in short: shame on you Russia!!!
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