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…

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

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

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

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

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

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

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

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

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

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

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

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

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

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

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

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

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

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

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

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

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

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

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

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

Unrestored part of the house in central 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.