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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

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

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

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

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

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

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

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

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

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

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

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

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

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

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

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

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

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

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

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

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

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

View from Lake Nero to Kremlin. Rostov Veliky. 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.