Moscow, Russia
Oksana’s flat, Moscow; eve of another unfortunate interregnum from the Russian Federation.
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From the monthly archives:
April 2009
Moscow, Russian Federation
The tallest Eastern Orthodox Church in the world; Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
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Moscow, Russian Federation
Oksana in Moscow with one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters looming in the distance.
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Moscow, Russian Federation
Last afternoon in Moscow. In the backgrounds, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters.
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Moscow, Russian Federation
This ‘tasteful’ Moscow gem is twice the height of the Statue of Liberty. Rough.
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Saint Petersburg, Russia
Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ; built on the spot where Alexander II was assassinated in 1881.
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Saint Petersburg, Russia
Osaka to St. Petersburg and back. Twice. Tomomi managed to upgrade significantly from the squalor conditions we enjoyed in 2006.
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Saint Petersburg, Russia
Anton Adazinksi; wild Russian multi-platform physical performance artist. Dude’s been going strong since the Soviet days. It’s like… alternative that’s been infused with ska, reggae, and a pinch of insanity.
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Saint Petersburg, Russia
C’est moi. Saint Petersburg is not a hard city to find oneself missing. Here, The Hermitage.
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Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Originally dedicated to Our Lady of Kazan, its purpose changed in the early 1800s to be a monument to Russia’s victory over Napoleon.
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Saint Petersburg, Russia
Return to St. Petersburg, three years absent. A bust of Peter the Great stands waiting.
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Kyltuk, Siberia
Kyltuk is a small, 400 year old village on the South Western tip of Lake Baikal.
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Baikal Lake, Siberia
Omul is a white fish local to Lake Baikal but in the same family as the more familiar salmon. Best raw or lightly smoked and salted (lakeside – with vodka – where possible).
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Smolenshina, Siberia
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Village of Smolenshina in Eastern Siberia between Irkutsk and Shelekhov. The frozen river is a small tributary of the Angara which flows from the eastward lying Lake Baikal.
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“No elections without choice.” (Cleverer in Russian because the word for ‘election’ and the word for ‘choice’ are essentially the same thing. “No choices without choice” could be another translation.)
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Lake Baikal, 100 km east of Irkutsk, Siberia. The largest and deepest fresh water lake in the world, it is over 1.5 km deep and contains more water than all the North American great lakes combined.
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Irkutsk, Siberia in Eastern Russia. At 5100 kilometers east of Moscow, it’s four days on the train. Irkutsk was founded in the mid 1600s as an outpost to collect fur taxes from the Buryats.
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