Danilovsky Market

This guide to Danilovsky Market in Moscow opens with Richard Nixon's unscripted 1959 visit, when the vice president wandered off his staged Soviet itinerary into a market of small stalls and free samples rather than state theater. It reaches back to trading grounds that predate the Danilov Monastery next door, and forward to the concrete dome architects raised over the market in 1986, split into fourteen petals Muscovites nicknamed the daisy. Look up at those curved ribs as you walk the stalls below them.