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…

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

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

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

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

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

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

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

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

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

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

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

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

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

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

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

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

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

White stone street sculpture. 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.