Lewis Carroll in Moscow...

154 years ago Moscow was visited by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll. That was a part of his 1867 trip (from July 12 to September 13—nine weeks) to Russia. As many other foreigners Lewis Carroll arrived in Moscow from the capital city of St. Petersburg. We know about his journey from the diaries written in Russia. Carroll’s Russian diary was first published in 1928 as Tour in 1867 by C. L. Dodgson (not under the pen name of Lewis Carroll), and then in 1935 as The Russian Journal and Other Selections from the Works of Lewis Carroll, edited by John Francis McDermott...

We gave 5 o 6 hours to a stroll through this wonderful city, a city of white houses and green roofs, of conical towers that rise one out of another like a fore-shortened telescope; of bulging glided domes, in which you see as in looking-glass, distorted pictures of the city; of churches which look, outside, like bunches of variegated cactus, (some branches crowned with green prickly buds, others with blue, and others with red and white), and which, inside, are hung all round with Eikons and lamps, and lined with illuminated pictures up to the very roof; and finally, of pavement that goes up and down like a ploughed field… / 5 или 6 часов мы бродили по этому удивительному городу — городу белых и зеленых кровель, конических башен, выдвигающихся одна из другой, словно в подзорной трубе, городу золоченых куполов, где, словно в кривом зеркале, отражаются картины городской жизни; городу церквей, которые снаружи похожи на кактусы с разноцветными отростками (одни венчают зеленые почки, другие — голубые, третьи — красные с белым), а внутри все увешано иконами и лампадами и до самого потолка расписано красочными фресками; и, наконец, городу, где мостовые изрезаны ухабами, словно вспаханное поле...
—Lewis Carroll Льюис Кэрролл, Lewis Carroll's Diaries. Luton 1999.