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…

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

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

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

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

Fasade detail. Cathedral of the Assumption in kremlin. 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.

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

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

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

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

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

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

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. Russia

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

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

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

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

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

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Russian county house (dacha) and decorated Christmas tree. Moscow region. 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 view to Kremlin and Moscow river. Moscow. Russia.

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

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

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

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

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

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

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

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

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

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

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

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

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

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

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

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

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