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…

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

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

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

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

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

Pinewood forest 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.

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

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

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

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

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

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

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

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

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

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

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

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

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

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

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

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

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

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

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

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

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. 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.

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

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

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

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

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

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

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

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

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

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

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

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

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

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

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

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

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

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

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

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.