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…

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

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

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

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

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

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

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

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

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

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

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

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

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

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

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

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

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

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

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

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

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

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. 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.