🌳 Novodevichy Pond

A pond by the convent walls reflecting the bell tower and the Smolensk Cathedral, with a path and benches around it.

The ponds lie in an oxbow of the Moskva River, and the park around them began to be laid out under a plan of 1957.
The sculpture Make Way for Ducklings is a copy of Nancy Schön's Boston composition, based on Robert McCloskey's book.
The ducklings were given to Soviet children in 1991 by Barbara Bush, who a year earlier had shown the Boston original to Raisa Gorbacheva.
The ducklings have been stolen more than once: one right after installation, and later the mother duck and several others; the figures were recast.
Above the pond stands Novodevichy Convent, founded in 1524, which has been on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 2004.

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