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…

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

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

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

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

White stone street sculpture. Moscow. Russia.

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

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

Winter evening. Tverskoy Boulevard. Russia.

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

Street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall. Russia.

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

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. Russia.

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

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

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

Borovitskaya tower. Moscow Kremlin. Russia.

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

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

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

View to Thrinity Cathedral. Alexandrov. Moscow region.Russia

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

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

Pinewood forest after heavy snowfall. Moscow region. Russia.

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

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

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

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

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

Unrestored part of the house in central Moscow. Russia.

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

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

Sculptural group Moscow underground (metro). Russia

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

Gothic revival Novo-Nikolsky cathedral . Mozhaysk. Russia.

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

Winter evening in one of Moscow boulevards. Russia.

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

Snow on tree branches after heavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia

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

Heavy snowfall at night. Moscow Region. Russia.

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

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. Russia

Russian county house (dacha) and decorated Christmas tree. 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.