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…

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

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. Russia

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

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

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

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

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

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

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

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

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

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

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

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

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

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

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

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

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

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

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

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

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

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

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

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

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

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.