Misty Day

The 'Moscow City' business complex appears to steam out of the mist like a fleet of battleships.  It's been hard to find any clear lines or contrasts in today's grey weather.

Today is National Unity Day (in Russian, День народного единства, or Day of People’s Unity) and the last public holiday of the year in Russia.  The day has its origin in the popular uprising against Polish forces that drove them from their occupation of Moscow in November 1612.  The day's name also reportedly "alludes to the idea that all classes of Russian society united to preserve Russian statehood when there was neither a tsar nor a patriarch to guide them."

Russia established National Unity Day 10 years ago. The holiday replaced the "The Day of Great October Socialist Revolution" held previously on November 7, which commemorated the anniversary of the 1917 Revolution.