Europe’s largest city. 14 million some souls living and breathing in a region sure can cause a city to stay awake at all hours. But there is one, and only one, short period when Moscow seems abandoned. It is the few short hours on the morning of 1 January before the city again stirs to life with throngs of people walking the city plazas.
The fireworks have fizzled, drunks are passed out, every party person finally slipped into bed sometime between 4 and 6am. Public transport is on a reduced schedule and the city on a reduced police schedule after the events of New Year’s Eve. If there is ever one time, just a single space of a few hours when Moscow is asleep, this is it.
Москва, 1 января в 9:00 (Moscow, 1 January at 9am.) The beginning of the new year.
