![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/16t.jpg) Bronze monument of guerrilla soldiers on subway station (Metro) Partizanskaya. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/23t.jpg) Bronze monument of Soviet actor E. P. Leonov at a corner of Mosfilmovskaya and Pyrieva streets. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/25t.jpg) Polytechnical Museum. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/06t.jpg) Interior of one of Kremlin churches. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/05t.jpg) Corner decoration of a Kremlin Church. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/08t.jpg) Madonna figure in a Kremlin Church. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/09t.jpg) Metro Smolenskaya subway station. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/03t.jpg) Metal dish in one of Kremlin churches. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/07t.jpg) Figure of a saint in a Kremlin Church. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/17t.jpg) Elektrozavodskaya Metro (subway) station. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/21t.jpg) Souvenir stand at overlook of Vorobyovy Gory. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/20t.jpg) Large vestibule of Komsomolskaya Metro (subway) station. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/17t.jpg) Arched vestibule of Novoslobodskaya Metro (subway) station. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/19t.jpg) Arched subway station (Metro) Ploshchad Revolutsii. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/18t.jpg) Passenger sitting in Elektrozavodskaya Metro (subway) station. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/01t.jpg) Tombs of Russian tsars in Archangel Cathedral of Kremlin. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/26t.jpg) St. Basil s Cathedral (Pokrovsky Sobor) on Red Square near Kremlin. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/21t.jpg) Decoration "Glory to Seamen" in Taganskaya Metro (subway) station. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/18t.jpg) Stained glass panel in Novoslobodskaya Metro (subway) station. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/11t.jpg) Stalin style mosaic in Metro Kievskaya subway station. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/19t.jpg) Passengers sitting in Prospect Mira Metro (subway) station. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/15t.jpg) Illustration of first Russian revolution (1905) in Krasnopresnenskaya Metro (subway) station. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/14t.jpg) Passenger sitting under revolutionary mosaic in Metro Kievskaya subway station. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/22t.jpg) Passenger sitting under a patriotic decoration in Taganskaya Metro (subway) station. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/22t.jpg) Traditional Russian crafts Matrioshki (nestle dolls) at overlook of Vorobyovy Gory. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/02t.jpg) Interior of Archangel Cathedral in Kremlin (Arkhangelsky sobor of Russian Orthodox church). Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/16t.jpg) Passenger sitting under illustration of first Russian revolution (1905) in Krasnopresnenskaya Metro (subway) station. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/20t.jpg) Bronze statue of a Soviet peasant (Kolkhoznitsa) with paultry in Metro Ploshchad Revolutsii (subway) station. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/12t.jpg) Mosaic titled "Friendship of Russian and Ukraine collective farmers" in Metro Kievskaya subway station. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/04t.jpg) Ural jewels, a gift for a museum at 10-th anniversary of Great October Socialist Revolution, in one of Kremlin Churches. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/10t.jpg) Fresco with figures of workers of Soviet Ukraine decorating Kievskaya Metro (subway) station of Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/974/jpeg/13t.jpg) Mosaic with an edited title "Leninskaya Iskra" (originally, "Stalinskaya(?) Iskra") in Metro Kievskaya subway station. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/226/jpeg/17t.jpg) View of Kremlin from Moscow River embankment. Moscow, Russia, August 30, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/226/jpeg/14t.jpg) Moscow River embankment and Kremlin. Moscow, Russia, August 30, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2000/167/jpeg/13t.jpg) A monument of Archimandrite Porfiriy Uspenskiy at a pro-Moscow Gornensky Convent for women. Ein Kerem (western Jerusalem), the Middle East, December 30, 2000
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1313/jpeg/19t.jpg) Saint George monument. Eisenach, Germany, December 5, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/226/jpeg/11t.jpg) View of a cathedral in Kremlin from Moscow River embankment. Kremlin was closed at Thursday. Moscow, Russia, August 30, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/226/jpeg/12t.jpg) View of Vasiliy Blazhennyi (?) cathedral in Kremlin from Moscow River embankment. Kremlin was closed at Thursday. Moscow, Russia, August 30, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2000/167/jpeg/04t.jpg) A monument of Archimandrite Leonid Sentsov (1863(?) - 1918), a head of Russian mission in Jerusalem, at a pro-Moscow Gornensky Convent for women. Ein Kerem (western Jerusalem), the Middle East, December 30, 2000
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2000/167/jpeg/14t.jpg) A monument of Archimandrite Antonin Kapustin (1869(?) - 1894) who founded in 1871 the Russian mission in Jerusalem, at a pro-Moscow Gornensky Convent for women. Ein Kerem (western Jerusalem), the Middle East, December 30, 2000
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/883/jpeg/01t.jpg) Subway station (metro) in Moscow, Russia, July 15, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1858/jpeg/18t.jpg) Decorations of historical Moscow Cinema on Gaza Street. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 21, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1858/jpeg/17t.jpg) Figures on historical Moscow Cinema on Gaza Street. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 21, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1858/jpeg/16t.jpg) Historical Moscow Cinema (1936, by L. Hidekel) on Gaza Street. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 21, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/965/jpeg/06t.jpg) Monument of political prisoners on embankment of Neva River. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/962/jpeg/15t.jpg) Political protests (Day of Wrath) near a monument of a Soviet poet V. Mayakovsky. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 12, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/962/jpeg/14t.jpg) Occupy Wall like political protests (Day of Wrath) near a monument of V. Mayakovsky. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 12, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/26t.jpg) Stained glass with monument of Peter the Great in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/965/jpeg/07t.jpg) Monument of a Russian revolutioner Vladimir Lenin on a square in front of Finlandsky Train Station. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/884/jpeg/04t.jpg) Dragon s Mouth in mud volcano area in Yellowstone Park. Wyoming, July 24, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/962/jpeg/16t.jpg) Pensioners watching Occupy Wall like political protests (Day of Wrath) near a monument of a Soviet poet V. Mayakovsky. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 12, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1955/jpeg/06t.jpg) Granite obelisk on Mikhailovskaya Lane in Smolenskoe Cemetery of Vasilievsliy Island. Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 27, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/22t.jpg) Saint George s Cathedral in Old (Staraya) Ladoga. Leningrad Region, east from Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 4, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2003/348/jpeg/06t.jpg) In Church of Saint George. Yuriev Monastery, near Novgorod, Russia, July 3, 2003
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/987/jpeg/21t.jpg) George Bush Presidential Library. College Station, Texas, November 26, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2003/348/jpeg/07t.jpg) A dome of Church of Saint George. Yuriev Monastery, near Novgorod, Russia, July 3, 2003
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/459/jpeg/25t.jpg) Saint George s cathedral in Old (Staraya) Ladoga. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 23, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1449/jpeg/24t.jpg) Correll s false dragon-head (Physostegia correllii) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, July 5, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/987/jpeg/23t.jpg) Lobby of George Bush Presidential Library. College Station, Texas, November 26, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/987/jpeg/20t.jpg) Entrance of George Bush Presidential Library. College Station, Texas, November 26, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/401/jpeg/18t.jpg) A monument of Peter the Great in Petrovskiy Park in Kronstadt. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 19, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/987/jpeg/22t.jpg) Front side of George Bush Presidential Library. College Station, Texas, November 26, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/458/jpeg/14t.jpg) A monument of Russian fabulist Ivan Krylov in Letny Sad (Summer Garden). Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 19, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/904/jpeg/12t.jpg) George Fox House at 1402 Ball Avenue in East End Historic District. Galveston, Texas, January 1, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/881/jpeg/07t.jpg) Svetovoy Zal (Light Hall) and monument of F. A. Gertner in Vitebsky Vokzal (train station). Saint Petersburg. Russia, July 10, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2002/317/jpeg/29t.jpg) Obelisk Tomb at entrance road to Petra. Jordan, December 1, 2002
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2469/jpeg/04t.jpg) Detail of a granite obelisk in Masonic Cemetery. Chappell Hill, Texas, March 17, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1999/80/jpeg/05t.jpg) A monument to a Soviet academician S. I. Vavilov (a brother of a well-known biologist executed for political reasons) in front of a new building of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute. The monument faces barbed wire surrounding the institute at Vasilyevsky Island. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/459/jpeg/12t.jpg) Saint George Hall in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/401/jpeg/07t.jpg) Saint George s Cathedral in Old Ladoga Fortress in Staraya Ladoga. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 18, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1964/jpeg/09t.jpg) Dragon of Shankhay Friendship Garden on Liteyny Prospect. Saint Petersburg, Russia, November 5, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/881/jpeg/10t.jpg) Grand staircase and monument of Russian Tsar Nikolay I (that recently replaced V. I. Lenin) in Vitebsky Vokzal (train station). Saint Petersburg. Russia, July 10, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/400/jpeg/22t.jpg) Gilt State Chair (throne) in Saint George Hall in Hermitage museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1964/jpeg/10t.jpg) Nine Dragon Wall of Shankhay Friendship Garden on Liteyny Prospect. Saint Petersburg, Russia, November 5, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1323/jpeg/03t.jpg) Obelisk and Orry the Oryx (mascot of the 15th Asian Games) statue on Corniche. Doha, Qatar, January 23, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/225/jpeg/28t.jpg) A monastery of Sergiev Posad (former Zagorsk) near Moscow. Russia, August 29, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/869/jpeg/19t.jpg) Sun behind clouds from a window of a plane from Houston to Moscow, Russia, June 19, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/869/jpeg/16t.jpg) Sky and clouds from a window of a plane from Houston to Moscow, Russia, June 19, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/226/jpeg/19t.jpg) An old Orthodox cathedral in Kolomenskoe neighborhood. Moscow, Russia, August 30, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/226/jpeg/20t.jpg) Old Orthodox churches in Kolomenskoe museum. Moscow, Russia, August 30, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/226/jpeg/23t.jpg) A road in a cemetery in Kolomenskoe museum. Moscow, Russia, August 30, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/780/jpeg/11t.jpg) Anchor Square, with Admiral Makarov Monument and Naval Cathedral of Saint Nicholas. Kronstadt (part of Saint Petersburg), Russia, July 11, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1937/jpeg/07t.jpg) Dragon on Chinese Bridge in Alexander Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo) near Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 13, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2186/jpeg/06t.jpg) Dragon Bridge in Alexander Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo), south from Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 6, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2186/jpeg/07t.jpg) Chinese Dragon in Alexander Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo), south from Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 6, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/755/jpeg/16t.jpg) Chess Hill (Shakhmatnaya Gorka or Dragon) Cascade in Peterhof (Petrodvorets), near Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 4, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/869/jpeg/18t.jpg) Tower like clouds from a window of a plane from Houston to Moscow, Russia, June 19, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/869/jpeg/17t.jpg) Rising clouds from a window of a plane from Houston to Moscow, Russia, June 19, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2059/jpeg/25t.jpg) Green Dragon (Arisaema dracontium) in Botanic Gardens of Komarov Botanical Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 5, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1974/jpeg/08t.jpg) Iron Chinese dragon on a bridge in Alexander Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo) near Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 3, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/877/jpeg/14t.jpg) Monument of a Russian revolutioneer V. I. Lenin (M. Ya. Harlamov, 1926) at 51 Obukhovskoy Oborony Prospekt at the entrance of Nevsky Plant (former Semiannikov Factory) near Metro Elizarovskaya. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 3, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2928/jpeg/28t.jpg) Blue flowers of Hepatica (Pechonochnitsa in Russian) on Orekhovaya Gora Hill in Duderhof Heights, south from Saint Petersburg. Russia, May 9, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2002/300/jpeg/24t.jpg) Zolotaya Gora (Golden Mount) Cascade of fountains in Peterhof, a former Tsar residence, now a suburb of Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 20, 2002
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2002/300/jpeg/22t.jpg) Zolotaya Gora (Golden Mount) Cascade of fountains in Peterhof, a former Tsar residence, now a suburb of Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 20, 2002
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2928/jpeg/26t.jpg) Fungus Biscogniauxia repanda on wood of hazelnut(?) on Orekhovaya Gora Hill in Duderhof Heights, south from Saint Petersburg. Russia, May 9, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2928/jpeg/20t.jpg) Fungus Biscogniauxia repanda on a dry stem of hazelnut(?) on Orekhovaya Gora Hill in Duderhof Heights, south from Saint Petersburg. Russia, May 9, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/225/jpeg/31t.jpg) A top dome of a cathedral of monastery of Sergiev Posad (former Zagorsk) near Moscow. Russia, August 29, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2059/jpeg/23t.jpg) Flower of green Dragon (Arisaema dracontium) in Botanic Gardens of Komarov Botanical Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 5, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1323/jpeg/04t.jpg) Dorsal view with clock obelisk of Orry the Oryx (mascot of the 15th Asian Games) statue on Corniche. Doha, Qatar, January 23, 2014
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