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| Russia |
Moscow Red Square |
St Basil's Cathedral (1561) in Red Square by the walls of the Kremlin. |
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| Russia |
Moscow Red Square |
Detail of the domes of St Basil's Cathedral (1561) in Moscow's Red Square. |
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| Russia |
Moscow Red Square |
Icons and altar of St Basils Cathedral. |
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| Russia |
Moscow Red Square |
The GUM store in Moscows Red Square. |
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| Russia |
Moscow Red Square |
The State History Museum on Red Square. |
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| Russia |
Moscow Kremlin |
The entrance to the Kremlin in Moscow. |
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| Russia |
Moscow Kremlin |
The Tzar's Palace inside the Kremlin (Moscow). |
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| Russia |
Moscow Kremlin |
The 1479 Assuption Cathedral in the Kremlin contains the tombs of many Russia Orthodox church leaders. |
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| Russia |
Moscow |
The brick Monastery of the Sign dates from the 17th century. |
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| Russia |
Moscow |
The Synod Printing Press where Russia's first printed book was produced in 1565. |
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| Russia |
Moscow Novodevichy Monastery |
A Russian Orthodox church, complete with onion domes; part of Novodevichy Monastery in Moscow. |
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| Russia |
Moscow Novodevichy Monastery |
The Bell Tower of the Novodevichy Monastery dates from 1690 and is 72m high. |
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| Russia |
Moscow Novodevichy Monastery |
Newly married couple outside Novodevichy Monastery. |
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| Russia |
Moscow |
Prospect Mira underground station is typical of the 1930s style stations of the Moscow Metro. |
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| Russia |
Moscow |
Komsomolskaya metro station is one of the most ornate in Moscow. |
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| Russia |
Moscow |
Arbat metro station. |
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| Russia |
Moscow |
Detail from Line 4 of Kievskaya metro station in Moscow. |
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| Russia |
Moscow |
Novoslovodskaya metro station with its stained glass windows. |
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| Russia |
Moscow |
Belaruskaya metro station. |
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| Russia |
Orel |
The war memorial in Orel. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
View over St Petersburg with the Aurora Cruiser which fired the first shots in the Russian Revolution. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Blue government naval building in St Petersburg. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Log cabin built by Peter The Great in 1703 from which he over-saw the building of St Petersburg. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Peter and Paul Fortress |
The Peter and Paul Fortress was built in 1703 and is the oldest major building in St Petersburg. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Peter and Paul Fortress |
The gold dome of the Peter and Paul Cathedral. It houses the remains of the last tzar, Nicholas II, and his family. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Peter and Paul Fortress |
The Peter and Paul Cathedral within the fortress. The spire (123m) is the tallest in the city. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Peter and Paul Fortress |
The baroque interior of the Peter and Paul Cathedral. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Matruskas (dolls within dolls) on sale in St Petersburg. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
River scene in St Petersburg. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
The Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace is one of dozens in St Petersburg. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Nevsky Prospect is the main thoroughfare in St Petersburg. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Trollybus in front of the Singer Building on Nevsky Prospect in St Petersburg. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Statue of Catherine The Great with her statesmen and lovers at her feet. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Nevsky Prospect is the main street in St Petersburg and is lined with shops, restaurants and hotels. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Nevsky Prospect is full of elegant buildings. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Street scene with painted building in the centre of St Petersburg. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
The wooden Bankovsky Bridge with four griffins. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
The interior of the Kazan Cathedral which dates from 1811. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
The pink Strogonoff Palace is where the dish of the same name was developed. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
The multi-domed Church of the Spilled Blood sits next to one of St Petersburg's numerous canals. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Detail from the Church of the Spilled Blood (1881). |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Part of the 7000 square metres of mosaics inside the Church of the Spilled Blood. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Close up of a mosaic in the Church of the Spilled Blood. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Pushkin's House where the poet died in 1837 (St Petersburg). |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
One of many elegant buildings in St Petersburg. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
The colonaded Anichkov Palace was completed in 1750. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Theatre entrance on Iskusstv Square. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Statue of the writer, Pushkin. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
The Armenian Orthodox Church of St Catherine (St Petersburg) dates from 1771. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
The tomb of composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovski (St Petersburg). |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
St Michael's Castle was built by Paul I, the son of Catherine the Great. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
The Marble Palace (1785) with a statue of Alexander III, father of the last tzar. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Military carving over the entrance of the Summer Palace, built in 1714 for Peter The Great. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Russian Museum |
The 1825 Mikhailovsky Palace is the home of the Russian Museum. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Russian Museum |
"A Beggerman's Easter" by Valery Yakoby in the Russian Museum at St Petersburg. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Russian Museum |
"Home Under Trees" by Boris Grigoriev in St. Petersburg's Russian Museum. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Russian Museum |
"The Death of Nero" by Vasily Smirnov. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Russian Museum |
Portrait of Nataly Sokurova, a princess, by Sergi Zarianko. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Russian Museum |
Portrait of Tzar Nicholas II by Iliya Repin in the Russian Museum. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Russian Museum |
"Night Watch" by Aekip Kuindzi. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Russian Museum |
"Holy People" by Vladimir Kuznetsoi. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Russian Museum |
"Ships and Evening Sun" by Konstantin Bogaevsky. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Russian Museum |
Portrait of Princess Olga Orlova by Valentin Serov, Russian Museum. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Russian Museum |
Wooden toys in the Russian Museum (St Petersburg). |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Russian Museum |
Basket made of carved birch. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Russian Museum |
Painted clay toys of mother and child in the Russian Museum. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Russian Museum |
Carved bone casket, Russian Museum. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Palace Square in St Petersburg. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg |
Palace Square from above. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
The green and gold Winter Palace dominates Palace Square in St Petersburg. It was home of the tzars between 1762 and 1917. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
Wrought iron gate at the Winer Palace. It is now the site of the Hermitage Museum. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
The Jordan Staircase was designed by Bartolomo Rastrelli and is made of marble. It leads to the Royal State Rooms. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
The top of the Jordan Staircase is supported by granite columns. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
The Malachite Hall is one of the State Rooms in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
Painting of poetry with a malachite lamp in the Malachite Hall. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
A small dining room where the 1917 government was arrested by the Bolshevics in 1917. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
The bedroom of Maria Alexandrovna is decorated with red material made by Cartier in Paris. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
Guilded wall and ceiling of the Golden Drawing Room in the Winter Palace. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
Bureau in the White Hall in the Winter Palace. It was built for the wedding of Alexander II. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
Inlaid wooden floor in the State Rooms at the Winter Palace. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
Portrait of two actresses by Jean Baptiste Santerre over a bureau in one of the hundreds of State Rooms in the Winter Palace. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
The large Alexander Hall, part of the Winter Palace. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
The Alexander Hall has tall ceilings decorated with blue and white friezes. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
Detail of "Battle at Viazna" by Peter Hess in a coridor of the Winter Palace. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
The Armoral Hall with its guilded columns. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
The throne of Peter the Great in the hall named after him. Part of the Winter Palace (Hermitage Museum) in St Petersburg. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
General Delyanov who fought against Napoleon in the 1812 Gallery. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
St George's Hall is the throne room of the Winter Palace. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
The Pavillion Hall contains 28 chandaliers. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
"Les Chaumierees" by Vincent Van Gogh in the Hermitage Museum. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
"Lady in Blue" by Paul Cezzane. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
"Lady in a Garden" by Claude Monet. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
"Young Woman with a Fan" by August Renoir in the Imoressuinist Room of the Hermitage Museum. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
"Vase with two Handles" by Henri Matisse. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
"Two Sisters" by Pablo Picasso in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
Ivory carving of men fighting animals from the Byzantine Room in the Hermitage Museum. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg Hermitage Museum |
Relief of the god, Anubis, in the Egypt Room of the Hermitage Museum. |
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| Russia |
Trans-Siberian Railway |
Forests and grassy meadows East of Moscow. |
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| Russia |
Trans-Siberian Railway |
Two girls travelling to Lake Baikal on the Trans-Siberian Railway. |
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| Russia |
Trans-Siberian Railway |
The Nerl River near Vladimir. |
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