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…

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

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

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

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

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

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

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

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

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

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

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

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

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

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

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

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

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

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

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

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. Russia

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

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

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

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

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

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

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

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