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…

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.

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

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

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

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

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

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

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

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

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. Russia

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

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

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

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

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

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

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

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

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

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

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

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

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

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

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

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

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

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

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

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

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

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

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