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…

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

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

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

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

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

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

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

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

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

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

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

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

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

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

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

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

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

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

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

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

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

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

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

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

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

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

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

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

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

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

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

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

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

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

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. Russia

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

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

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

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

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Fasade detail. Cathedral of the Assumption in kremlin. 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.