A Bridge to Moscow: A Digital Boat Trip Down the Moscow River

Bridges are both a metaphorical and literal link between two otherwise disparate objects. They're used so much in clichés such as "burning bridges," and "building bridges" regarding relationships. Writer Suzy Kassem, in Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem puts bridge-building in terms of a positive attribute in leadership: 

“Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.” 

As a physical object, the bridge in and of itself is a beautiful feat of engineering. 

You're about to embark on an exploratory tour of 5 bridges you would encounter if you took a boat down the Moscow River. Named after the Russian word for bridge -- "most" -- Moscow has no shortage of these impressive fixtures. Overall, bridges are a helpful temporal metaphor -- you can go back in time or into the future with a bridge, but you can also take a moment to soak in the view in the present. 

I've chosen five interesting bridges. We'll start with the most recently constructed Moscow bridge, then we'll continue with how Stalin either influenced (or ignored) two bridges, then the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge, the vein from the Kremlin to Zamoskvorechyewe, and we will end with a thought on a futuristic bridge outside of Moscow which has yet to even be completed.