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…

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

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

View from country house window in winter. Moscow region. Russia.

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

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

Cathedral of the Annunciation and river gzhat at night. Gagarin (former Gzhatsk). Russia.

Russian county house (dacha) and decorated Christmas tree. Moscow region. Russia.

View to Kremlin and Moscow river in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

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

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

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

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

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

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

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

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

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

Canteen (Stolovaya) with icicles. Gagarin (former Gzhatsk). Russia.

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

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

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

Smocked fish for sale from back of a van. Smolensk highway. Russia.

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

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

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

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

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

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow city centre. Russia.

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

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

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

Woman taking picture with digital camera in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

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

Fence in one of Moscow's boulevards after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

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

Cupola of the Cathedral of the Transfiguration. Yaroslavl. Russia.

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

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

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. Russia

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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