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…

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

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

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

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

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

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

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

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

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. Russia

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

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

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

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

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

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

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

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

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

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

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

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

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

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

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

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

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

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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