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…

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

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

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

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

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

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Two men carrying baptistery. Assumption (Uspenski) cathedral. Smolenk. Russia

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

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

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

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

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

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

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

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

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

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

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

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

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

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

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

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moscow Kremlin and the Moskva River at night. Moscow. Russia

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

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

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

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

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. 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.