For me Moscow is a controversial city. Like for any resident of Kaluga, it's almost guaranteed to be the only city you'll visit in childhood. I'm no exception. Until age 20 I hadn't been anywhere else at all.
Until 2008 I'd been there only a couple times, only paper photos remain. Then from 2008 to 2013 I studied at RUDN. It would seem, where are the photos? Nowhere. In Moscow I was in severe depression, as it seems to me now. So I don't like Moscow, I only have bad memories of it.
June 2007
Happy times. I won the regional English olympiad. Smart kids from the whole city were gathered in summer in one school (mine) and we hung out with each other for a whole month.
My buddy also won an olympiad, though in social studies, the city gave him a camera. The city gave me a book and dick with butter. Mom bought me a camera with her own money so I wouldn't worry. In a sense, the site wouldn't have arisen without all this - the first interest in photos arose exactly like this.
The camera was taken on a trip to Moscow
This is Kolomenskoye
This is me trying myself in "photography art"
This - in "humor"
Didn't think that in a year I'd be studying here
In the park were discovered people just lying on the grass, an action unseen in Kaluga
I repeated after them, and it was straight WOW LOL KEK at the time. The photo gathered tons of comments on MySpace
My buddy, Rammstein t-shirt (everyone had one like that) and spammed Moscow
Tsoi Wall
This is me creating an image of "seriousness". The photo also gathered tons of comments from emo girls from the internet
Nothing foreboded trouble, I didn't think about life in Moscow
2009
Suddenly, now I'm already living in Moscow. Well like living, surviving. I don't like it there. Only games save me, more precisely - Counter-Strike. I rock at it with guys from Kaluga.
It was decided to go with them to a LAN CHAMPIONSHIP. Had to go to Mitino. Didn't know you could travel around Moscow for two hours. Lost all the games, but it was straight up fun.
In 2009 also went on a date with my first and last Muscovite, took photos on a PDA (at the time a pocket computer, today's "smartphone", but on steroids - sign of a top male). Sparrow Hills I think
A year later in Moscow started smoking like a chimney
At RUDN there was a thing unknown to me now - smoking room on every floor. No comments, life in those times was peculiar
2011
By 2011 I still hadn't found Moscow friends and hung out exclusively with my old Kaluga ones
I didn't even live in Moscow, but in the ass-end of Domodedovo city. So I left the house once a year
My buddy in a similar situation pushed that you need to not give up, work out and work. On that occasion I even made a DEMOTIVATOR. Spoiler alert, gym and work also didn't help
Perhaps if I'd liked Moscow, I wouldn't have even thought about moving to Czechia. So I'm grateful to this city too. Though in 5 years of life I absolutely didn't learn to navigate it, didn't take photos, didn't find friends or work, I always remember that life when I think that things are very bad for me now. Helps in seconds.