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…

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

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

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

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

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

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. Russia

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

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

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

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

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

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

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

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

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

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

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

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

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

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

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

Forest and holiday village in distance after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

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

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow city centre. 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.