Saint Basil Cathedral on Red Square, Moscow
I am back :) Sorry for the long dry spell, but I was busy leading a team in Russia. Of course I took my camera, so the next week or so I will post some images of the largest country on earth, starting...
View ArticleTo the future with Stalin and Lenin
This image illustrates the changes in Russia. The old heroes Stalin and Lenin are now reduced to tourist attractions. Just a hundred meters away from Lenin’s tomb on Red Square, capitalism has won, as...
View ArticleMemorial fountains at Poklonnaya Gora, Moscow
Moscow (and Russia in general) is filled with war memorials, this is one of the bigger ones in Moscow: Poklonnaya Gora (Hill). The red fountains symbolize the unthinkable amount of blood that had been...
View ArticleCathedral of St. Michael the Archangel in the Moscow Kremlin
While the St Basils Cathedral I posted a few days ago is often mistaken for the Kremlin, this Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel is actually within the walls of the Kremlin complex, together with a...
View ArticleMatryoshka dolls at the University viewpoint, Moscow
The most popular souvenir -besides (fake)fur hats- are the little matryoshka or matrushka dolls. Produced since the end of the 19th century, the small dolls have from 4 up to more than 30 smaller dolls...
View ArticleMoscow subway traffic
172 stations, 280 kilometers of lines, 2.5 billion people per year standing on 65 kilometers of escalators. The Moscow Metro/subway system is one of the biggest and busiest in the world. Excellent and...
View ArticleWoman selling fruit in Kislovodsk
Kislovodsk is a city at the foot of the Caucasus mountains. Though there are internet cafes and discotheques with pole-dancing possibilities (progress!) it feels as if you go back in time. This woman...
View ArticleMount Elbrus, Russia from the North
Mount Elbrus is the highest mountain of Europe and therefore one of the 7 summits. Usually it is climbed from the busy South side, where the cable cars, chairlift and snowcat of the ski area make the...
View ArticleMarina and Ahmed
Though it looks like a regular snapshot, it actually illustrates a few things we discovered during our weeks in Russia: First of all, Russians like their weapons. There are many arms everywhere and...
View ArticleMineral springwater, Russia
The foothills of the Caucasus are home of many mineral springs. There was one silverspring close to BaseCamp of Elbrus, but most were filled with iron-saturated and lightly carbonated water, like this...
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