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…

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

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

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. Russia

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

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

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

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

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

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

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

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

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

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

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

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

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

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

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

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

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

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

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

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

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

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

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

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

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

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

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

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

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

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

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

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

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

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

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

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

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

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

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

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