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…

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

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

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

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. Russia

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

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

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

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

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

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

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

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

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

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

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

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

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

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

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

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

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

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

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

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

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

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

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

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

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

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