Several hundreds of bronies gathered in Moscow yesterday on Nightmare Night festival timed to celebrating Halloween. It wasn’t as large as RuBronyCon, but it was the first brony convent I’ve ever visited. And Ah didn’t come back empty-hoofed, I’ve got some beautiful thangs and brought y’all some photos. Here we go!

Bronies started to come in more than a hour before opening, it sure was a crowd of ’em.

Many of ’em were in cosplay costumes. This youngun literally attacked everyone with cuteness of his Fluffy plush toy.

In front of the doors worked the blacksmith; he made the horseshoes and gave ’em to the watchers. I was more interested in his portable forging furnace working on simple propane.

The entrance of the hall was adorned by pasteboard figures of Twilight and Rainbow. And, of course, between ’em was this table with traditional Halloween pumpkins.

In left of it was placed the large relax-zone where guests could play various games, from computer fighting ’bout ponies to chess or ponified version of monopoly.

The coffee and tea were dispensed there for almost free, along with cookies and granny-slappin’ tasty chocolate and apple muffins.

There also were several zones where people could draw ponies both on the paper and on computers.

And, of course, merchandise. The crafters from all over the country came here to show their own stuff and sell it. It was everythin’- art, key rings, pins, paintings, statuettes, posters, mugs, audio CD’s of Russian rock band “Przewalski’s Ponies.” There were some fanfiction books in Russian, printed by fans specially for Russian brony community. Among them were official books in English- “Diary of the Two Sisters” and “Elements of Harmony.” Ah already have only the first one, so I’ve tried to buy EoH for $25, and then I found I have not enough cash. I decided to find ATM, but they haven’t it in this building (oh, some Russian specific infuriates me.) I went outdoors and when I finally found one and got back to the festival, they sold all the books. Literally in 15 mins!

The young sell their art with title- “Buy Art- Feed a Student.”

The one of most important parts of this convent surely was auction. Only most unique and amazing pieces of art were selling there. The bids were desperate and the prices were getting dizzy heights!

To be continued...