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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 |
A Russian Orthodox church, complete with onion domes; part of Novadavichii Monastery in Moscow. |
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| Russia |
Moscow |
The Bell Tower of the Novodevichy Monastery dates from 1690 and is 72m high. |
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| Russia |
Moscow |
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 |
Nevsky Prospect is the main street 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 |
The Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace is one of dozens 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 |
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 |
Part of the 7000 sq m of mosaics inside 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 |
The Peter and Paul Cathedral within a fortress houses the remains of the last tzar, Nicholas II and his family. |
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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 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
Winter Palace |
The green and gold Winter Palace in St Petersburg, home of the Tzars between 1762 and 1917. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg
Winter Palace |
The Winter Palace in St Petersburg.
A small dining room where the 1917 government was arrested by the Bolshevics in 1917. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg
Winter Palace |
The Winter Palace in St Petersburg is now the Hermitage Museum.
General Delyanov who fought against Napoleon in the 1812 Gallery. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg
Winter Palace |
The Malachite Hall is one of the State Rooms in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg. |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg
Winter Palace |
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
Winter Palace |
"Two Sisters" by Pablo Picasso in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. |
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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 |
Wooden toys in the Russian Museum (St Petersburg). |
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| Russia |
St Petersburg
Russian Museum |
"Russia Spring" by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin in St. Petersburg's Russian Museum. |
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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 |
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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| Russia |
Trans-Siberian Railway |
Wooden houses in the Ural Mountains near Perm. |
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| Russia |
Trans-Siberian Railway |
The Barabinsk Steppe in Western Siberia. |
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| Russia |
Trans-Siberian Railway |
Smoked fish seller at Barabinsk station (Western Siberia). |
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| Russia |
Trans-Siberian Railway |
One of the many rivers on the Barabinsk Steppe. |
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| Russia |
Trans-Siberian Railway |
The River Ob near Novosibirsk in Central Siberia. |
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