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…

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. Russia

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

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

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

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

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

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

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

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

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

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

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

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

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

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

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

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

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

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

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

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

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

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

View to Kremlin and Moscow river in winter. Moscow. 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

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.