Two clips, the first showing the full Changing of the Guard ceremony beneath the red walls of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.

A relative brief affair, the ceremony starts with the new Guards arriving via a long (100m+) path from behind the camera. After completeing the switch, the old guards return down the same path to their barracks.

The second clip shows what happens after the ceremony is complete. Another Guard stands close to the wall and walks up to each of the two Guards and makes sure their uniform is arranged correctly and that he is standing in the correct spot.

One amusing postscript to the second clip shown here: you will notice that one Guard turns round briefly to look into the crowd out of frame. I may have read it wrong but when the Guard walked away he approached a Russian woman at the front of the crowd and had a chat with her. Looked like he was passing on some sort of message (phone number?) from the Guard who had just arrived on duty.

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