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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

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

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

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

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

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

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

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

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

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

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

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