These portraits and pictures are at the Hotel National in Moscow, located immediately adjacent to the “Duma”, the parliament of the Russian Federation
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, a Russian composer
The same hotel in 1920
Celebration parade in the nearby Red Square.
The same parade in 2010
This is an amazingly accurate “thermopile”, a calorimeter for thermodynamic measurements, in the laboratory where Alexandra Khvan is the Director
It has incredible stability, and in spite of its size, it requires only minute samples. The room environment itself is controlled
This is the size of the sample that undergoes the appropriate phase change
Here a furnace designed in Russia, to reach temperatures in excess of 3000 C
Bjoern Johansson (Swedish Academy of Sciences) enjoying the introduction in style.
Alan Dinsdale in the middle, working with Alexandra Khvan on thermodynamics
This is a periodic tabel designed by the students of Professor Khovan, notice the element Kh and some deliberate mistakes regarding Ti, Rb
Professor Wolfgang Bleck proposing a toast at dinner
Alan Dinsdale and Alexandra Khvan
Bjoern again
Sergey Kalsoshkin on the left, and Professor Tanalin, an expert on thermodyanmics
Lindsay Greer, and Kate, both from Cambridge
Moscow has excellent architecture and detail everywhere.
This is MISiS where we were based for work
Professor Konstantin Gregorovich on the left, Dr Alexander Arsenkin in the middle, and Olga Ushkanova on the right
In the museum for lunch
A test of strength, that Harry participated in
The Dumas, the Federal Assembly of Russia
It was located next to our hotel
And the Bolshoi in the background, Kate, Harry and Lindsay in the foreground
We were treated to La Traviata in the original part of the Bolshoi Theatre
There are two Harrys in this picture
Inside the Bolshoi
This was the “party in Paris”
“Violetta” takes a bow.
The audience for Harry’s lecture on the thermodynamics of alloying and de-alloying
The audience for Harry’s lecture on the thermodynamics of alloying and de-alloying
The audience for Harry’s lecture on the thermodynamics of alloying and de-alloying
