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

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. Russia

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

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

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

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

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

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

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

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

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

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

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

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

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

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

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

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

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

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

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

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

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

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

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

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

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

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

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

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

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

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

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

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

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.