The Hermitage

Kremlin

Military at the Kremlin

Novodevichy Convent lake

Street Art by the Arbat

Suzdal

Suzdal is a small town in Vladimir region and is located 210 kilometres north east of Moscow.  It is one of the main orthodox church religious centers in Russia and one of the most ancient Russian towns.

Yuri Gagarin

Soviet cosmonaut and first man in space.  Designed by Pavel Bondarenko and architect  Yakov Belopolskiy

Zhivopisny bridge

Menshikov Tower (Church of Archangel Gabriel)

Menshikov Tower, also known as the Church of Archangel Gabriel, is a Baroque Russian Orthdox Church. It was built in 1707 to order of Alexander Menshikov  by Ivan Zarudny assisted by Domenico Trezzini, a team of Italian-Swiss craftsmen from Ticino and Freyburg cantons and Russian stonemasons from Kostroma and Yaroslavl. It was substantially altered in 1770

Street Art by the river

Tretyakov Gallery

The State Tretyakov Gallery was founded by a Russian merchant Pavel Tretyakov.
He donated his collection to the city of Moscow in 1892.  The Gallery has since become a world-famous museum .  Nowadays it contains more than 170 000 works by Russian artists from the early religious paintings to the modern art objects.