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“Travel through Russia, July 2006”
From Moscow, Russia (2006), posted by Arlo Midgett on 10/07/2011 (198 items)
- Moscow skyline
- The Moscow metro is architecturally amazing
- Oksana with her brother, Andrey, and sister-in-law, Natasha.
- Glassed-in bridge
- Moscow University (I think)
- Onion domes
- Russian Orthodox Churches are all over the city
- Closeup
- Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer
- One of many towers along the Kremlin wall
- The Kremlin
- Ivan the Great’s Bell Tower
- Kotelnicheskaya Naberezhnaya
- Strangely, the latest (fourth) Pirates of the Caribbean movie was playing during our…
- New Saviour Abbey
- New Saviour Abbey, with bird
- We visited during a heat wave, with sporadic heavy thunderstorms
- Downpour
- Peter the Great’s Statue
- Bridge and Kremlin
- Didn’t realize until I got home that I captured a lightning bolt in this photo…
- Fountain
- Oksana
- Andrey’s secret to non-stop sightseeing? Ferry catnaps!
- Descending down a deep metro station
- One of many cool metro stations
- Another
- Park Pobedy Metro station I wrote about this photo here: http://postcardvalet.com/200…
- Church of St George the Victorious
- Church of St George the Victorious at sunset
- Storm front
- WWII Museum
- Oksana by the fountains
- Cityscape
- Manezh Square
- Under this glass dome is a huge mall
- Closeup on the dome
- From beneath
- Mall tiers
- Oksana posing in the mall
- Kremlin guard
- Hot day, cold treat
- Portrait with flowers
- Everyone wanted in the fountains; it was at least 95 degrees!
- Posing by the fountains
- Kids digging out the change
- Oksana posing with the ferry tale statues
- Posing together
- High-stepping
- Changing of the guard
- Eternal flame guard
- Can’t move during your shift, but the commanding officer can come out and mop your br…
- Double-Eagle Pinnacle
- Double-Lion Pinnacle
- A glimpse of St. Basil’s through the gate
- Empty Red Square
- Kazan Cathedral
- History Museum, Kremlin on the left
- Kremlin Bell Tower
- Posing in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral
- St. Basil’s Cathedral
- Replacing the gold flashing
- Blue and White dome
- Statues
- Looking up at St. Basil’s Cathedral
- St. Basil’s Cathedral
- St. Basil’s Cathedral, ornate domes
- Security
- St. Basil’s Cathedral from the street
- GUM ("goom") Mall on Red Square
- Inside GUM
- Inside GUM
- That’s right, bitches! I grabbed the bull by the horns!
- Red Square filling up
- Looking toward Red Square and the Kremlin from the street
- MSN Chat ad in the street (Is your userid in there?)
- Kazan Cathedral and History Museum
- Kazan Cathedral
- Kazan Cathedral spire
- Kazan Cathedral dome
- Waiting to get into Red Square
- History museum
- Brickwork
- Communist Party endorser
- Down with Putin!
- Peter the Great’s Bell Tower, inside the Kremlin
- St. Basil’s, closuep
- Fountains
- Yuri Gagarin monument
- Posing for a pic
- Oksana at Park Pobedy
- Nike monument
- Chilling in Park Pobedy
- Triumphal Arch (a twin of the one in France, I think)
- Closeup on Cathedral of Christ the Savior
- Cathedral of Christ the Savior
- Cathedral of Christ the Savior
- Setting up for the Shakira concert (we missed it!)
- St. Basil’s Cathedral
- Kremlin wall and clock tower
- St. Basil’s Cathedral from behind Red Square
- Tour bus and St. Basil’s on the other side of Red Square
- I think Oksana’s brother just might have known I was taking a photo…
- Inside the Kremlin
- Kremlin defense
- Tsar Cannon
- Cathedral of the Archangel Michael, Annunciation, and Assumption
- Ivan the Great Bell Tower, Tsar’s Bell, and Cathedral of the Archangel Michael
- Bell tower
- Cathedral of the Assumption
- Cathedral of the Annunciation
- Terem Churches
- Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer
- Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer, Kremlin tower
- Grand Kremlin Palace and Archangel Michael
- Cathedral of the Annunciation on the left
- Golden domes
- Stopping for a quick photo inside the Kremlin
- Painter
- Stopping for a photo
- Kremlin
- Kremlin and Moscow River
- Back entrance to the Kremlin
- Today’s Cyrillic language lesson: "y" is pronounced like the "oo"…
- Moscow street
- High Monastery of St. Peter
- Wassup!
- "Shut up, Swan!"
- Through the trees
- Still Life, with Column
- I guess I was a little heavier in 2006
- The Soviets also had a space shuttle program. The ran out of funding just before ach…
- Shuttle nose
- Inside the Buran was the absolute worst carnival ride I have ever been on in my life….
- "I’m sorry about your hand, bro."
- In Russia, the world for these translates to "Viewing Wheel."
- Gorky Park
- Just like the real thing Hey! Did you know that in Spanish, the word for "rolle…
- This is a perfect representation of American football. Down to the mustachioed guy r…
- Just a cute kid that happened to be on our sightseeing boat
- Cathedral of Christ the Savior beyond the bridge
- Note the rear-view mirror.
- Kremlin in the distance
- Domes of the Cathedral of the Annunciation
- Kotelnicheskaya Naberezhnaya apartment building
- New Saviour Abbey
- Corner Aresenal Tower, on the Kremlin wall
- Happened upon a wedding photography session at the eternal flame
- Hot day
- Oksana at the Moscow Circus
- We weren’t allowed to take photos during the show, so I snapped just one photo of the…
- We had dinner at the top of this building
- Academy of Sciences building
- Oksana’s brother, Andrey, stumbled into the shot
- Sunset across the city
- Nightfall from on top of the building
- Sunset over the Moscow River
- Thunderstorm approaching
- Twin bolts
- Oksana and Vika
- I have no idea why we took this shot in the elevator
- Oksana and her brother, Andrey
- Making our way back home in the rain
- Nap time in the Moscow Metro
- That’s a guy on a motorcycle in there!
- Flowers
- Flower clock in Park Pobedy
- Rollerblader paradise
- Allies
- Bunkered down
- Tank
- Jet
- Air intake
- Afterburners
- Split intake
- Parasol
- Rail cannon (Look at the size of those shells!)
- Big guns
- The WWII Museum in Moscow is quite amazing. Not something I thought I would have bee…
- Hall of Heroes
- CCCP
- Park Pobedy
- An old, abandoned Soviet structure. Recently demolished on our visit in 2011
- Took about an hour and a half
- Getting our portrait painted on Old Arbat
- Portrait
- Final result We made a timelapse video of this, too. You can see it on Youtube at: h…
- Outdoor restaurant
- Moscow at sunset (very late in the evening)
- Moscow by night
- Bridge
- Reflections
- Under the bridge
- Movie stars!
- Fire dancers
- Fire trails
- Fire breathers
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