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…

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

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

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

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

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

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

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

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

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

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

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

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

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

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

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

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

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

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

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

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

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

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

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

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

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

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

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

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

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

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

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

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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