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…

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

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

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

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

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

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

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

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

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

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

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

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

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

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

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

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

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

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

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

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

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

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

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

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

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Cupola of the Cathedral of the Transfiguration. Yaroslavl. 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.