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.

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

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

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

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

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

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

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

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

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

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow 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.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. Russia

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

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

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

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

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

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

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

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

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

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

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

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

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

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

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

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

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

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

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

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

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

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

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.