![](../../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/03t.jpg) Metal dish in one of Kremlin churches. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2222/jpeg/16t.jpg) Centenary commemoration of Great October Socialist Revolution in the tapestry corridor in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 7, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1999/80/jpeg/15t.jpg) Museum of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute with an old artistically decorated chimney and a Soviet-era exposition. The museum was settled in a former typewriting office (the room has reach interior because the building was expropriated from a wealthy family after the Great October Socialist Revolution). Vasilyevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1999/80/jpeg/16t.jpg) Museum of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute, decorations on the ceiling (the room has reach interior because the building was expropriated from a wealthy family after the Great October Socialist Revolution). Vasilyevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1928/jpeg/14t.jpg) Memorial of heroes of Great October Socialist Revolution in Lesnoy Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 8, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1910/jpeg/08t.jpg) Memorial of Heroes of Great October Socialist Revolution in Lesnoy Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 22, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1999/80/jpeg/17t.jpg) Museum of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute with an old artistically decorated chimney and a Soviet-era exposition. (the room has reach interior because the building was expropriated from a wealthy family after the Great October Socialist Revolution). Vasilyevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 1999.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2015/1659/jpeg/23t.jpg) Monument of heroes of Great October Socialist Revolution in Alexander Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo), south from Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 24, 2015
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2937/jpeg/25t.jpg) Monument of glory to fallen heroes fought for Great October Socialist Revolution in Alexander Park in Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo) near Saint Petersburg. Russia, May 18, 2021
![](../../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/2011/974/jpeg/07t.jpg) Figure of a saint in 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/05t.jpg) Corner decoration of a Kremlin Church. 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/15t.jpg) Illustration of first Russian revolution (1905) in Krasnopresnenskaya Metro (subway) station. 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/2011/974/jpeg/02t.jpg) Interior of Archangel Cathedral in Kremlin (Arkhangelsky sobor of Russian Orthodox church). Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../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/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/2011/973/jpeg/25t.jpg) Polytechnical Museum. Moscow, Russia, July 3, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1078/jpeg/24t.jpg) Socialist like antique sculpture in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/17t.jpg) Elektrozavodskaya Metro (subway) station. 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/2024/3595/jpeg/24t.jpg) Paintings for sale in a gift shop in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/973/jpeg/21t.jpg) Souvenir stand at overlook of Vorobyovy Gory. 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/17t.jpg) Arched vestibule of Novoslobodskaya Metro (subway) station. 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/2011/973/jpeg/19t.jpg) Arched subway station (Metro) Ploshchad Revolutsii. 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/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/19t.jpg) Passengers sitting in Prospect Mira 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/2011/973/jpeg/16t.jpg) Bronze monument of guerrilla soldiers on subway station (Metro) Partizanskaya. 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/2011/973/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/24t.jpg) Obelisk and a monument of St. George slaying the dragon by Zurab Tsereteli on Poklonnaya Gora. 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/2011/941/jpeg/22t.jpg) Wax replica of a head of Russian tsar Peter the Great by B. K. Rastrelli in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 17, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/222/jpeg/02t.jpg) Typical for Ural piles of rock fragments on slopes of Aleksandrovskaya Sopka hill near Zlatoust, Southern Ural. Russia, August 14, 2001
![](../../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/2011/969/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/2011/974/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/23t.jpg) A road in a cemetery in Kolomenskoe museum. Moscow, Russia, August 30, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/457/jpeg/17t.jpg) Ruins of barracks and churches of Ivangorod Fortress. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 17, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2000/154/jpeg/37t.jpg) Neglected yard of State Optical Institute with posters commemorating its 80th anniversary, at Vasilievskiy Island. Sankt Petersburg, Russia, October 9, 2000
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/877/jpeg/05t.jpg) Wax replica of a head of Russian tsar Peter the Great by B. K. Rastrelli in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2924/jpeg/15t.jpg) Sculptures of Kremlin and Lenin s Mausoleum at exhibition "Levitation. Chief s dream" by Sergey Chernov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 6, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3595/jpeg/04t.jpg) Models of Kremlin and Lenin s Mausoleum in art installation "Levitation. Chief s dream" by Sergey Chernov in Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/457/jpeg/21t.jpg) Churches of Ivangorod Fortress, view from a wall near Vorotnaya (Gate) Tower. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 17, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3494/jpeg/14t.jpg) Fluorescent light sculpture "Untitled (In Honor of Leo at the 30th Anniversary of his Gallery)" (1987) by Dan Flavin in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, California, March 18, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2488/jpeg/06t.jpg) Sculpture of a Russian Tsar Peter the Great at the entrance of a neglected museum in Peter the Great Botanical Garden of Komarov Botanical Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 7, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2003/348/jpeg/16t.jpg) Volkhov River and Kremlin from Yaroslav Courtyard. Novgorod, Russia, July 3, 2003
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/883/jpeg/01t.jpg) Subway station (metro) in Moscow, Russia, July 15, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1902/jpeg/08t.jpg) 40-th Anniversary of Komsomol Embankment. Vyborg, Russia, September 10, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2002/308/jpeg/12t.jpg) Gardens and Christian churches on slope of Mount of Olives from Derekh Ha Ofel Road. Jerusalem, the Middle East, October 31, 2002
![](../../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/18t.jpg) Decorations of historical Moscow Cinema on Gaza Street. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 21, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2015/1601/jpeg/16t.jpg) Portrait of Peter the Great in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 19, 2015
![](../../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/2012/1095/jpeg/15t.jpg) Statue of Catherine the Great in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 11, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/757/jpeg/08t.jpg) Statue of Catherine the Great in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1725/jpeg/06t.jpg) Catherine the Great statue in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, January 8, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/461/jpeg/21t.jpg) Catherine the Great(?) statue in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 1, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/485/jpeg/07t.jpg) A statue of Peter the Great in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 28, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/480/jpeg/21t.jpg) Portrait of Peter the Great in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2015/1601/jpeg/15t.jpg) Red Room with a portrait of Peter the Great in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 19, 2015
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/485/jpeg/09t.jpg) A statue of Catherine the Great in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 28, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/485/jpeg/08t.jpg) A statue of Peter the Great, zoomed, in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 28, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1143/jpeg/03t.jpg) Head of Tsar Peter the Great in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 4, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/761/jpeg/18t.jpg) Churches on Yaroslavovo Dvorishche. Novgorod, Russia, June 15, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/480/jpeg/09t.jpg) Great Patriotic War of 1812 portrait hall in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 16, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1149/jpeg/19t.jpg) Churches inside Ivan Gorod Fortress. Leningrad Region, Russia, February 9, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2224/jpeg/17t.jpg) Model of Peter the Great s head for the monument Bronze Horseman by M.-A. Collot in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 9, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1725/jpeg/04t.jpg) Model of Peter the Great s head for the monument Bronze Horseman by M.-A. Collot in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, January 8, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1143/jpeg/02t.jpg) Head sculpture of Tsar Peter the Great at upper staircase landing in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 4, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1155/jpeg/13t.jpg) Vyborg Castle from Embankment of 40 Anniversary of Komsomol (Young Communists). Vyborg, Russia, February 14, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/406/jpeg/13t.jpg) A park in the center of the city, with V. I. Lenin monument and ancient churches around it. Pskov, Russia, August 8, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1725/jpeg/16t.jpg) Model of Peter the Great s head for the monument Bronze Horseman by M.-A. Collot at the entrance Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, January 8, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1149/jpeg/20t.jpg) Churches inside Ivan Gorod Fortress, view from walls. Leningrad Region, Russia, February 9, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1725/jpeg/05t.jpg) Lower view of a model of Peter the Great s head for the monument Bronze Horseman by M.-A. Collot in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, January 8, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2224/jpeg/10t.jpg) Sculpture of Russian Tsar Catherine the Great in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 9, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1142/jpeg/15t.jpg) Sculpture of Russian Tsar Catherine the Great in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 4, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1155/jpeg/23t.jpg) Embankment of 40 Anniversary of Komsomol (Young Communists) and old city from St. Olaf Tower of Vyborg Castle. Vyborg, Russia, February 14, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1821/jpeg/16t.jpg) Alley in Kremlin area. Novgorod, Russia, May 7, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1142/jpeg/14t.jpg) Head of Russian Tsar Peter the Great at entrance of Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 4, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2224/jpeg/18t.jpg) Wide angle view of a model of Peter the Great s head for the monument Bronze Horseman by M.-A. Collot in Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 9, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/953/jpeg/22t.jpg) Grand Pond with Great Weir Island in Ekaterininsky Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo), south from Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 30, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2002/260/jpeg/19t.jpg) A gift of Taiwan depicting Madonna(?) in the Church of Annunciation in Nazareth. The Middle East, March 16, 2002
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/220/jpeg/15t.jpg) A.S. in Krasnogorsk, near Cheliabinsk, south Ural. Russia, August 12, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/222/jpeg/20t.jpg) Turgoyak Lake near Miass. Southern Ural, Russia, August 15, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/406/jpeg/10t.jpg) Part of the Kremlin wall near Velikaya River. Pskov, Russia, August 8, 2004
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