Moscow Photos (2006)

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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” in “food.”

: 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 “roller coa…

: 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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