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…

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

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

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. 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.

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

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

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

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

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

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

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

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

Moscow Kremlin, Kamenniy Bridge and Moskva river. 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.