Visiting Moscow for the past month and running around like a shameless tourist, I thought it would be interesting to share my favorite places for creative inspiration. The first on my list is a relatively new “The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography” located on the territory of the famous “Red October” Chocolate Factory. The center began working on March 4, 2010 and includes a moderately-sized exhibition hall, photography gallery, lecture hall, library with adjacent café and an art store. From what I understand so far, the museum’s main focus will remain on highlighting the work of Russian and Soviet Photographers and their recounts of nation’s rich legacy and history.
But general information aside, I want to give you a sneak peak of what you will witness if you are ever in the city of czarist golden domes and breathtakingly white winters. The particular exhibition featured below is called “Moscow Stories - XX Century (1900-1960’s)” The photography exhibition collected over the past 10 years by the museum’s curators features the work by various Russian and Soviet artists zooming in on architecture and casual portraits of the nation at the great time of change:
Red Square and Kremlin
(end of XIX – beginning XX century)
Petr Pavlov 
Cabs and Cars on Teatralnaya Square (1935)
Arkady Shaikhet
Victory Parade on Red Square
Color bearers with the prostrated fascist flags (1945)
Mikhail Trakhman 
Weekend on Red Square (1950’s)
Yury Krivonosov
And my favorite:
“Echos of childhood” (1957)
Leonid Lazarev
The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography
Bolotnaya Naberejnaya, house 3, building 1
Moscow, Russia
http://lumiere.ru
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