Russia Photos

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Though I was born in the Soviet Union, we didn’t travel much when I lived there. These days, a visit to Moscow is more about seeing friends and relatives than meeting new people and visiting new places… However, we did manage to go on a couple of trips. One was to Smolensk around Christmas/New Years, and the other was to the towns of the Golden Ring and St. Petersburg in the summer. Below is a subset of the Russia photos I had time to prepare. More to come…

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

Fasade detail. Cathedral of the Assumption in kremlin. Moscow. Russia.

Metal Trees of Love with locks. New Russian tradition. Moscow. Russia.

Church of Our Lady of Kazan on Red Square at night. Gagarin (former Gzhatsk). Russia.

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. Russia

View from Lake Nero to Kremlin. Rostov Veliky. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

Shadow of fence on snow in orange street light at night. Russia.

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

Cupola of Resurrection cathedral in New Jerusalem near Istra. Moscow Region. Russia

Bell tower and streetlight. Orthodox monastery Davidova Pustin in winter. Chekhov. Moscow region. Russia.

Tower and buildings of New Jerusalem near Istra. Moscow Region. Russia

John the Baptist Monastery in Vyazma. Smolensk region. Russia.

Country house (dacha) in winter dawn. Moscow region. Russia.

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

Moscow Kremlin, Kamenniy Bridge and Moskva river. Moscow. Russia.

Parents wait for the end of children's Christmas tree party in front of Cathedral of the Assumption in Kremlin. Moscow. Russia.

Detail of the Monument to heroes of 1812. Smolensk. Russia.

One of Moscow's boulevards after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

Bust (sculpture) of colonel Neverovsky. Smolensk. Russia.

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

Founded in XIV Century Goritsky Monastery. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

Close up. Snow on a brunch of pine tree. Moscow. Russia

Winter view to Kremlin and Moscow river. Moscow. Russia.

Russia. Pleshcheevo Lake.just before sunset. Pergola. Silhouettes.

Church of Icon of the Virgin Hodegetria in Vyazma. Smolensk region. Russia.

View to Kotorosl River. Late spring, early summer. Yaroslavl. Russia

Metal Trees of Love with locks. New Russian tradition. Moscow. Russia.

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

Memorial to the victims of Gulag. Winter. Moscow, Russia.

House in countryside after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

Smoke from samovar's chimney in winter. Moscow region. Russia.

People waiting for a bus on a bus stop. Gagarin (former Gzhatsk). Russia.

View to Assumption (Uspensky) cathedral from Kremlin. Smolenk. Russia.

Orthodox monastery Davidova Pustin and Assumption church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in winter. Chekhov. Moscow region. Russia.

Forty saints' church on Lake Pleshcheevo. Pereslavl-Zalessky. Russia

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

Swimmer. 1930 by Matvey Manizer. Neskuchniy Garden. Moscow. Russia.

Mikhail Shemyakin's 'The children - victims of adult vices'. Drug addiction figure. Moscow, Russia. The sculptures are of twelve bronze figures, which depict the adult vices, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, prostitution etc, that affect children.