Russian Spires
St. Petersburg, Moscow, & Environs, 2005
Above: Cathedral of the Nativity, Suzdal
In 2005 Ruby and I spent the month of April in Russia. We visited a friend and her son in Saint Petersburg. We also took a side-trip to Moscow and the nearby towns of Suzdal and Vladimir.
The Neva River runs through St.Petersburg. The April weather is turning the surface ice into water.
The Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Church of the Palm Sunday, Suzdal
Outside and inside the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Saviour, Suzdal
I read that the subway tunnels are so deep they could double as fallout shelters.
We found many excellent cafés — great places to escape the cold weather!
Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Red Square, Moscow
Old wooden church in the rain, Suzdal
Is it stereotypical to note their contentment — our Russian friend looking down at her plate of blinies in St. Petersburg and my Chinese wife Ruby about to dig into her Beijing duck in Moscow?
The Cathedral of the Assumption (or the Dormitian Cathedral), Vladimir
![Spring evening [in Rostov the Great], 1906, by Constantin Yuon, in the Serpukhov Historical-Art Museum. Photographer: Stolbovsky. From Wikimedia Commons, cropped and altered with text (“Bye Bye, Russia!”) by RYC.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55c58254e4b0a9ad6b25bf97/1585244425784-WMVTIBJ15T1AV0ZOEPV5/poka+poka+rossiya.png)
Spring evening [in Rostov the Great], 1906, by Constantin Yuon, in the Serpukhov Historical-Art Museum. Photographer: Stolbovsky. From Wikimedia Commons, cropped and altered with text (“Bye Bye, Russia!”) by RYC.