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…

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

Assumption Cathedral. Sergiev Posad. 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.

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

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

One of newly restored Monasteries. Pereslavl Zalessky. Russia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Assumption Cathedral. Smolensk. Russia.

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

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

Rostov Veliky. Kremlin. Russia

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

Moscow State University in haavy snowfall. Moscow. Russia.

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

Walls and tower of Smolensk Kremlin. Russia

Monastery of Holy Sign in winter. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

Savvino Storozhevsky monastery. Zvenigorod. Moscow region. Russia

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

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

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

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

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

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

Snowmans in Gorky Park. Moscow. Russia.

Kremlin wall. Smolensk. Russia

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

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

Village in Smolensk region. Russia

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

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

evening on Lake Pleshcheevo with rock in foreground

Gate church. Borisoglebsy monastery. Russia

White stone street sculpture. 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.